Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Kent County Showground gets set to welcome 300 dealers
07 June 2021B2B Events is off to Kent again with the second antiques and vintage market this year running on Saturday and Sunday, June 19-20.
Ex-cinema centre in Kent could continue
07 June 2021A former Victorian picture house in the Kent town of Herne Bay which now serves as an antique furniture and collectables centre was pulled from auction last month.
Jaguar Fairs heads back to Wetherby with a buzz
07 June 2021North Yorkshire town’s racecourse event returns and weekly market has a new owner
Gateway to Salvo celebration
31 May 2021Digital event marks 30 years since the reclamation and salvage firm was launched
Arthur Swallow Fairs return for second Beale Park fair down by the river
31 May 2021As live fairs and markets return in strength, Richard Burgoin, director of Arthur Swallow Fairs, is in the midst of his summer season of events.
Recycling is the fashion these days
31 May 2021Vintage fashion dealer Samaya Ling has been in the trade for nearly 20 years but the rest of the world is cottoning on, it seems.
Love returns at Lingfield Racecourse fair
24 May 2021Like so many other organisers, Donny Mann of Love Fairs is delighted to be back running fairs after such a long absence.
‘All outdoors and covid secure’ for Shepton Flea
24 May 2021Nine months after the last Shepton Flea was held at the Royal Bath & West Showground the market returns on Sunday May 30.
Selling on the Hoof
24 May 2021Out on the Romney Marshes in east Sussex is a series of small buildings that is Hoof Brocante.
‘Pent up demand’ sells out Rowley Mile
24 May 2021Capacity has been reached for the upcoming Newmarket Antiques & Collectors’ Fair at Rowley Mile Racecourse on Sunday June 6, says organiser Paul Kelly.
Continuity is returning to fairs scene
24 May 2021Updates on three fair organisers returning with events in the next few months
Actor-turned-dealer Patterson takes to the Surrey stage
17 May 2021An actor and theatre director who turned to dealing when work dried up during the pandemic is standing at his first antiques fair on Sunday, May 23, at the Dorking Halls in Surrey.
Return to centre: Huge Elvis fan finds new home for dealers
17 May 2021Following the closure earlier this year of the Pickering Antiques Centre in North Yorkshire, which opened in 2018, manager Mark Witherington has found a new home in the town for some of the dealers.
Fairs updates in Oxfordshire and Bath
17 May 2021Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs is disappointed but sanguine about the news that the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson will close for refurbishment from June to October, thus causing her to cancel her monthly antique and vintage fairs at the venue.
Festival time in Peterborough
10 May 2021Art glass dealers look forward to the Festival of Antiques.
Dorking welcomes open-air brocante
10 May 2021Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs is back with her fully booked socially distanced antiques and decorative art fair at the Dorking Halls.
Henley event causes ripples of excitement
10 May 2021Organiser of event by the Thames is buoyed up by record number of stands confirmed
Now you can enjoy the not-so-far east
03 May 2021Spotlight on businesses in the bustling antiques havens of Suffolk and Norfolk
A touch of Poland in Peckham
26 April 2021Duo organise south London pop-up market presenting five vintage poster dealers.