Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Swallow starts at Ripley Castle
26 April 2021Swallow Fairs’ first three-day Decorative Home and Salvage Shows this year is the biannual event running at the 14th century Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, from noon on Friday, May 7, to Sunday, May 9.
Fresh chapter in book fairs
26 April 2021The moment has arrived for bibliophiles missing the physical sight and touch of books at actual fairs.
Chiswick hits high road
26 April 2021After many false dawns Jennifer Titmuss is finally launching her monthly Chiswick Antique and Vintage Market on Sunday May 9.
Test your pot luck in Devon
26 April 2021Anything and everything to do with the garden is how Hyson Fairs describes its popular fairs in Devon.
Ready to take up arms again at Kempton Park
19 April 2021Organiser Peter Binfield is hoping for fine weather and a good turnout of 100-plus dealers at the first of this year’s Vintage & Classic Arms Fairs at Kempton Park on Sunday, May 2.
Get on board for a showroom sale
19 April 2021Chrissie and John Masters of The Design Gallery in Kent are offering this fine Art Deco sideboard by Hille at their showroom sale in Edenbridge from April 23-25.
Events held outside are relaunching after the latest easing of lockdown restrictions
19 April 2021The start of May is likely to be a busy period with outside fairs and markets opening up around England and Wales after a protracted lockdown hibernation. Here is a snapshot of a few of them.
Antiques centre launched in idyllic location after chance meeting with country estate owner
12 April 2021Tony Wittridge is so smitten with the antiques business he is opening in the grounds of Kyre Park, a large country estate at Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, that he is planning a move to the county from Essex.
Dorking dealers prepare to reopen premises as lockdown eases
12 April 2021Dorking Antiques was launched last August by three dealers: Mark Holden, Eddie Hawkins and David Whalley.
Fair powers on at the museum
05 April 2021While the Museum of Power at Maldon in Essex does not yet have a firm date for reopening – to gaze at the original mighty steam-pumping machines – Steve Haddon of Haddon Events can still make use of the site.
Flea London to reopen with 27 stalls on April 17
05 April 2021“We are super-excited to be reopening our Flea London again on Saturday, April 17, after so long and we are planning on 27 stalls and 10 container shops here at Vinegar Yard,” enthused Christian Scrimgeour about her fleamarket held a few minutes from London Bridge Station.
Antiques centre in revitalised former granary battles through to April reopening
05 April 2021After three lockdowns but also a successful auction launch last August in between closures, Graham Hessell will be throwing open the doors once again to his Melford Antiques, Interiors & Lifestyle Centre on April 12.
Affordable Art Fair: events at cities worldwide to come but it’s online for now
05 April 2021The Affordable Art Fair has announced its live show dates this year in London, New York, Melbourne, Hong Kong and cities in Europe.
JOS launches two events which complement the B2B fair schedule
29 March 2021This coming Easter weekend may be quieter than usual but many of us can plan to meet up with family and friends again in the coming weeks and months as lockdown restrictions ease around the UK.
Continuity back after the enforced break
29 March 2021“It’s been heart-breaking to keep cancelling fairs as people are so keen to trade but the good news is that our event in the Westpoint Arena at the Devon Showground, Exeter, is going ahead on Saturday and Sunday, June 5-6,” says Nick Bayliss of Continuity Fairs.
IACF ready to meet the high demand
29 March 2021Will Thomas, managing director of IACF, surely speaks for the trade with his fervent hope that successive pandemic lockdowns have now come to an end.
Three events scheduled to run in April and May
22 March 2021Updates on the Oswestry Showground, Bath markets and Sue Ede’s Giant Flea.
Market organiser Sherman & Waterman looks ahead as events are set to return
22 March 2021“I’m counting the days,” said a happy Mike Collins, director of market operator Sherman & Waterman as he ticks off the reopening dates for his antiques and vintage markets, centre and car boot.
Northern exposure: Antiques centre branches out from the south to the Lake District
22 March 2021Vincent Page, owner of Antiques on High in Oxford and Sidmouth, has turned his sights northwards.
Hemswell Antique Centres boss shares “crazy" experience of lockdown
22 March 2021“Due to our digital presence with our website, social media and the live virtual shopping tours I have been conducting all over the world my skeleton team of 10 staff have been kept extremely busy.”