Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Ready teddy go for keen collectors in Kensington
28 August 2023Anyone who has been charmed by teddies all their adult life since maybe an early adoration of Winnie-the-Pooh could head to the long-running biannual Hugglets Teddies Festival.
Three Counties rolls into Bedfordshire
21 August 2023Antiques dealers Marylyn and Ray Wood took over the 30-year-old biannual Three Counties Antiques and Fine Art Fair in 2020 and held their first staging as Castlewood Antique Fairs in September 2021.
Cost of living crisis hits PM Rishi Sunak's local antiques shop
21 August 2023An antiques and vintage shop in the prime minister’s constituency of Richmond in North Yorkshire is set to shut its doors at Christmas.
Pals prepare for a new brocante in Lincolnshire
21 August 2023Two dealer friends from Rutland who met at a vintage fair where they were both exhibiting are now launching their first event in Lincolnshire.
First Suffolk, now on to Norfolk
14 August 2023Inaugural Lomax-organised Southwold event could be joined by another high-end fair also in East Anglia
Classic cars and live music at new Port Eliot event
14 August 2023Alexa Robins, organiser of AFC Fairs’ big antiques and vintage event at the Royal Cornwall Showground, is very excited by news of a new fair she’s been asked to put on.
Farm tools help social enterprise to grow
14 August 2023Antiques furniture dealer Philip Crosthwaite’s popular monthly antiques fair in Norwich will feature Richard Goddard, who sells antique vintage tools for a worthy social cause.
Over 60 stalls for market in Norfolk Broads town
07 August 2023Antiques and vintage street markets proliferate across the UK, particularly in the summer.
Curated in the Cotswolds again
07 August 2023The Cotswolds Vintage Fairs has been run annually with various curators in August for 13 years at the village hall at Toddington, near Broadway.
West Yorkshire's Lotherton Hall hosts vintage event
07 August 2023The lawns at the front of Lotherton Hall, an Edwardian country house at Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, will be buzzing with the sights and sounds of a vintage weekend on Saturday and Sunday, August 12-13.
Car park becomes temporary fair venue in Northampton
07 August 2023Northampton’s Monday to Saturday market has had to resort to a temporary location in the Commercial Street car park during the £8.5m renovation of the town’s historic market square.
Lily Antiques moves to new showroom in Cirencester
07 August 2023Former kennels at the site of AS Fairs’ new three-day event in Gloucestershire now house a dealership
Blackdog Events adds garden setting to growing schedule of fairs
24 July 2023A charming 18th century five-acre walled garden in north Norfolk is the latest in the lengthening portfolio of fairs in interesting venues organised by Suffolk-based Blackdog Events.
Stags Head takes over Northamptonshire fair
24 July 2023Stags Head Events is taking over the biannual antiques and vintage fair at Lamport Hall near Northampton organised for about 15 years by Antiques2Go.
Market also offers an indoor event
24 July 2023Last year Adam Game launched his monthly antiques and vintage street market in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted.
Fresh shoots grow in Stoneleigh
17 July 2023New fair is set to use Midlands agricultural exhibition centre venue that will be familiar to many visitors
French fair benefits from Brexit effect
17 July 2023Most of the exhibitors at the spring edition of the biannual antiques fair held in the enchanting antiques-laden Provençal town of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue come from the south of France with a couple from Italy and Belgium.
Book dealers hope for Hay big spenders at new fair
10 July 2023A look ahead to the new PBFA fair in a renowned town for book-lovers.
Antiques on High empire extends now to Harrogate
10 July 2023An antiques centre which has been a fixture in Harrogate for many years is the latest acquisition by Antiques on High’s Vincent Page and his partner Lesley White.
Love Fairs takes over Kent event
03 July 2023B2B gives up the Detling Showground organisation after more than a decade but still runs Malvern