Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Croydon event ready for lift-off
21 December 2018Organised for more than 20 years by aviation enthusiasts Dave Sutton and Alistair White in conjunction with the Croydon Airport Society, the annual Croydon Aviation and Military Fair is run on a charity basis aiming to keep the history of Croydon aerodrome alive.
Organisers sow seeds for two fairs
21 December 2018The two-day Big Brocante held at the Hop Farm in Paddock Wood, near Maidstone in Kent, is organised by Katrina Palsager and her family who also run the well-regarded 150-dealer annual Firle Vintage Fair at Firle Place near Lewes.
East Anglian folk get together for new trade association
21 December 2018Philip and Claire Crosthwaite, who run Hingham Antiques Fairs in the south Norfolk town, have embarked on a new venture: launching the Norfolk and Suffolk Antique Dealers Association (NASADA).
It’s a ‘copper comeback’, says Hungerford dealer
21 December 2018An antiques dealer for nearly 40 years and the long-time owner of Below Stairs in Hungerford, Stewart Hofgartner, pictured below, is a colourful character.
Fairs & Markets 2018: review of the year
17 December 2018It’s been a packed year with new fairs starting up as well as relaunches.
Antiques centres in Hungerford and Banbury bucking the retail trend
10 December 2018Doom and gloom surrounds retailing in the UK but in the trade plenty of antique centres are bucking the trend. Here we bring you a short focus on a few of them – ideal places to buy a variety of stock offered from a number of dealers in one spot.
Make a clip top purchase in Woodbridge
10 December 2018When Natalie Smith opened the Woodbridge Antiques Centre in the pretty Suffolk town 11 years ago, she said she was given a great piece of advice: never compromise on quality and presentation.
Hop to it in Nottingham
10 December 2018A regular stallholder at Arthur Swallow Fairs is Liam Woodgates, director of the Hopkinson Vintage Antique and Art Centre in Nottingham, where a corner display is pictured below.
Be festive in France: two fairs in Paris before Christmas and another in Bordeaux
03 December 2018A trip to France before Christmas to buy unusual gifts is always a good plan. Here are three antiques and vintage brocantes to visit: two well-known weeklies in Paris and a biannual event in Bordeaux.
Scarf collector reflects on eight years of east London vintage fairs
03 December 2018Cary Whitley has been running her biannual Love Vintage brocantes in June and December in Wanstead, east London, for eight years, with the next on Saturday, December 8.
Where to shop in style: Three antiques fairs in fine settings including Ludlow Castle in Shropshire
03 December 2018Events at Ludlow Castle, St Stephen's Church and Hodson Hall
Art Fair East – Norwich sets world view
26 November 2018For its fourth year, Art Fair East comes to Norwich.
Salvaged shipwreck items create a niche dealing field at Ally Pally
26 November 2018IACF is expecting a buoyant antique and collectors’ fair at Alexandra Palace on Sunday, December 2, including items sourced from shipwrecks.
Page turns over new Devon leaf
26 November 2018News from Antiques on High, the antiques centre saved for the city of Oxford when it was bought by antique furniture dealer Vincent Page last year, alerted via a tweet about a story in ATG.
Fifty exhibitors at Larmer Tree Gardens as brocante blossoms
26 November 2018Sally Knott has been running the biannual two-day Dorset Brocante for three years at two venues: in August at Deans Court, Wimborne, and in the autumn at Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury.
Couple bank on a centre venture in Pontypool
19 November 2018Two years ago we featured ex-paramedic Allun Davies and his business selling vintage luggage in the Gwent town of Pontypool.
Jewels sparkle above the vintage array in Kensington
19 November 2018The range of choice in antique and vintage jewellery makes for ideal one-off special presents – try the dedicated 30-dealer jewellery fair pictured below, with baubles from the Georgian period onwards.
Two events check in at the Holiday Inn venue
19 November 2018Antiquarian and out-of-print book and ephemera collectors will be in heaven on the weekend of December 1-2 with two fairs at the Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury in Coram Street.
Recently released Queen film helps renew interest for vinyl collectors
12 November 2018One of the busiest of Naomi Knight’s monthly markets at the Listed Green Park Station in Bath is her Christmas Vintage and Antiques Market.
Frocks and hats make it a party in Clerkenwell
12 November 2018It’s party time at Savitri Coleman’s Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair in the Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen Street, on Sunday November 25.