Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Stonor Park marks start of car boots
01 April 2024Probably the first of the 2024 season’s ‘country house antiques and vintage car boots’ will run on Sunday, April 28, at Stonor Park, near Henley in Oxfordshire, with 200 sellers.
Cheltenham market to host 50 dealers this month
01 April 2024Visitors to Cooper Events’ three-day decorative, antiques and fine art fair at Westonbirt School in Tetbury from April 12-14 may well take in another antiques shopping delight that beckons nearby.
Nottinghamshire organiser reconfigures event set-up as heavy rain causes problems
25 March 2024Winter 2024 turned out to be the wettest ever in the UK - which inevitably threw up significant challenges for fair organisers.
Dawgs gives visitors lots to chew over
25 March 2024Among the many recommendations on the Facebook page of Spotty Dawgs Antiques & Used Furniture is a particularly praiseworthy one in which the poster has said that he would pay an entrance fee to wander round this treasure trove all day.
Get the Friday feeling in Cirencester
18 March 2024Every Friday since the early 1970s, the Corn Hall in Cirencester, a building at the heart of the town’s life since the 19th century, hosts an antiques and collectables market.
Popular fairs set for single Hampshire and Dorset date
18 March 2024Grandma’s Attic Fairs will be very busy on Monday, April 1, with two of the organiser’s most popular fairs running on the same day.
Showground showcase in Norfolk
18 March 2024The Norfolk Antique & Collectors’ Fair has been running for 24 years at the Norfolk Showground, near Norwich.
Organiser makes plea for Fawley Hill reinforcements
18 March 2024Judy, Lady McAlpine needs more antique and vintage traders to sign up for her vintage festival held in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support at Fawley Hill, near Henley, from Friday to Sunday, May 17-19.
Make it a weekend with Warwick visit
11 March 2024A 20-minute drive from NAEC Stoneleigh takes you to the town of Warwick, dominated by its castle originally built by William the Conqueror. Hunters and gatherers at IACF’s antiques event at Stoneleigh may well take in what the city has to offer antiques-wise. Here are two businesses to visit.
Celebration event filling up fast
11 March 2024With one hall full and the other getting very close, IACF counts down to its new Midlands two-day fair
Dealers head to Highgate for new Pop-Up fair
04 March 2024Maxine Stonehill of Pop Up Vintage Fairs has added two new locations in London to her list of fairs this year.
From Massive Attack to manor house fair
04 March 2024Organiser and dealer whose previous experience was putting on a 1990s gig tries running an antiques fair
Books and photos boom but ephemera fairs down in number
26 February 2024Themed fairs are an added reason to head for Etc Fairs’ events held in London at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury WC1.
With huge antiques centres already nearby, Gainsborough gains a dedicated fair
26 February 2024The small town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is the perfect pitstop for antiques and vintage buyers, particularly the trade.
Ten years of Faversham street bonanza
19 February 2024Charles Dickens spent a great many chapters of his life in Kent, and had much to say about the Medway towns including Faversham, where he described “the queer little market square... the lop-sided little town hall with its big-faced clock and supporting pillars forming a little arcade, in which probably the merchants of Faversham do congregate”.
Go for vintage not mass market
19 February 2024Focus on two events at the start of next month that offer an array of options for distinctive decorations
New and old events to look forward to
19 February 2024Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events has added an 11th event to her portfolio of markets in Surrey, Hampshire and west Berkshire.
Major collecting fest on the cards
12 February 2024Picture-postcard collecting became a craze in Edwardian times and in the 21st century many of us are delighted collectors of these ‘windows on the world’.
London arms fair finds new venue in Woodford Green
12 February 2024The organiser of The London Antique Arms Fair had been searching for a new venue in which to hold the event throughout 2023.
Yorkshire Dales antiques entrepreneur discovers another opportunity
12 February 2024Young businessman who opened antiques centre and salvage yard launches a second venture