Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Many developments at busy mill
09 March 2020Four years ago we featured the Grade-I Listed Cromford Mill at Matlock in Derbyshire, and most specifically antiques dealer David Walsh who had launched the Cromford Mill Antiques Centre on the site.
Bristol April photo fair cancelled
09 March 2020The second Bristol Vintage Photograph Fair due to be held on Easter Sunday, April 12, at The Royal Photograph Society’s headquarters in the city has been cancelled.
Norwich fair now a brocante
09 March 2020The long-running monthly fair held in the medieval St Andrew’s and Blackfriars’ Hall in the centre of Norwich – formerly the 'Norwich Antiques Fair' and most recently the 'Upmarket Fleamarket' – was taken over last November by antique and vintage toy collectors Leon and Kevin McLoughlin-Smith.
Malthouse hunt for militaria
09 March 2020Last year we featured the launch of the Malthouse Collective in Stroud, Gloucestershire. This offers 60 dealers and designers selling traditional antiques as well as interiors pieces and art from a listed former Victorian malthouse.
Organisers return to Croydon for another event in an impressive venue
02 March 2020Alison Davis and Alan Old of So Last Century Vintage and Retro Fairs run their London events in suitably historic and interesting buildings.
Fair at Harlequins rugby club sees dealers return to Twickenham
02 March 2020Haddon Events is returning to the Twickenham Stoop, the south-west London home of Harlequins rugby club, for its annual antiques and collectors’ fair.
Belfast fair back again
02 March 2020Irish provincial silver is always sought after. The c.1790 silver sauceboat pictured below by John Nicholson of Cork is a rare example.
Held at the Holt
02 March 2020Forty-plus dealers will be converging on the Holt Hotel at Steeple Aston, near Oxford, to stand at Antiques@The Holt on Saturday and Sunday March 14-15.
Call for exhibitors to join Bristol Vintage Photograph Fair
24 February 2020Antiquarian book dealer Hugh Rayner is putting out a call for more exhibitors at the Bristol Vintage Photograph Fair.
Event’s oarsome new venue
24 February 2020Fawley Hill fair relocates down the road to the Meadows where the royal regatta is held
Wilton on the way
24 February 2020Newcomers to the 44-dealer annual Wilton House Antiques Fair include the Vangelli Gallery in London with Asian decorative art, the West Sussex antique dealership Wakelin & Linfield which sells English and Continental furniture and Shine on Design, specialising in Art Deco pieces.
Rare Samuel Shufflebotham work on Llanelly Pottery offered at Carmarthen Showground event
24 February 2020Only about three of these c.1907 Llanelly Pottery rose bowls (below) are known to exist, says dealer Robert Pugh who is pricing the one shown here at £700.
York fair organiser launches another event in nearby market town
17 February 2020Born and raised in York, Richard Cawood is the organiser of the city’s triannual 'Antique Home & Vintage Fair' and has now launched a second, smaller event in the nearby East Yorkshire market town of Pocklington.
Designer’s textiles revived for the modern day
17 February 2020A UK-based design studio trio last year took over the UK licence to the archive of Florence Broadhurst, an Australian designer whose whirlwind life came to a tragic end in 1977.
Revived version of Little Chelsea fair runs for two days with a decorative focus
10 February 2020Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Antiques Fairs is gearing up for the launch of an ambitious new venture.
Continuity reveals details of new Bingley Hall event
10 February 2020As announced in ATG No 2428, Continuity Fairs has taken over the Bingley Hall Antiques Fair, which had been held by IACF at the Staffordshire County Showground from mid-2018 to December 2019.
New antiques centre backs army veterans
10 February 2020An antiques centre specialising in militaria including books has opened in the Bedfordshire town of Biddenham.
Continuity for the venerable Bingley Hall fair
03 February 2020Bingley Hall Antiques Fair at the Staffordshire County Showground will be managed by Continuity Fairs which has taken over the running of it from IACF.
The renowned teddy bear expert who has overcome an allergy to soft toys’ fur
03 February 2020For a man who has built his career around teddy bears it is a strange quirk of fate that these inoffensive toys make him feel unwell.
Vintage Valentine cards: a regular sight at ephemera fairs
03 February 2020A clever piece of marketing from the oil company Shell and with slightly saucy automobile-referenced lines, this Valentine dates from a tradition of sending cards to Shell’s female customers who had accounts at their garages. This ran from 1938-75, apart from an interruption during the war years.