Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Thurman version of former Field Dog
06 January 2020Revived by Ruth and Paul Thurman last year, the former Field Dog Fairs event held in the Magnus Sports Hall in Newark under the new organisers will run on Sunday, January 26.
Wall-to-wall vintage in Berlin
28 December 2019One of Europe’s biggest street parties on New Year’s Eve is celebrated in Berlin, which attracts visitors in their thousands.
Ready for the off
23 December 2019The Antique Forum Group will be at Uttoxeter Racecourse set in the Dove Valley in Staffordshire on Saturday and Sunday, January 11-12.
Two Cs takes over biannual fair
23 December 2019Organiser handed sole control of Kensington ceramics and glass event revived recently.
Flea hits 100
23 December 2019In Somerset on Sunday, January 5, the organisers of the Giant Shepton Mallet Fleamarket are celebrating the 100th staging of this event held at the Royal Bath & West Showground.
What I would like for Christmas
16 December 2019Organisers and dealers tell us their wishes for movie posters, motorbikes and much more.
New firms open north and south
09 December 2019Focus on two shops launched in a former bank in Wiltshire and restaurant in Cumbria
Lassco at the centre of market
09 December 2019Outside and around the Bermondsey flooring and salvage showrooms of The London Architectural Salvage and Supply Company (Lassco), the annual Maltby Street Christmas Market runs on Friday evenings until December 20 from 6-9.30pm.
Tables piled with toys
09 December 2019Just in time for Christmas, BP Fairs, aka Barry and Ellis Potter and family, will be holding a toy, train and collectors’ fair at the Stafford County Showground on Sunday, December 15.
Bath Racecourse to host biannual fair
02 December 2019Nick Bayliss of Continuity Fairs is launching a new biannual antiques, home and vintage fair at Bath Racecourse, the UK’s highest flat racecourse.
Shepton Mallet fair streamlined to be a ‘more economical venture’
02 December 2019IACF has announced a change to the three-day antiques and collectors’ fairs held in Shepton Mallet at the Royal Bath and West Showground five times a year.
Sue Ede's next Exeter event
02 December 2019Run by Devon County Antiques Fairs for many years, the renamed monthly Saturday Exeter Matford Antiques and Collectors’ Fair was taken over by SP Fairs, aka Sue Ede and family, last year.
Potter around this book fair
25 November 2019Work featuring the boy wizard Harry Potter is a familiar sight at the PBFA’s annual Christmas event
Artist Gavin Turk to attend Vauxhall art fair
25 November 2019Billed as offering astonishing bargain prices, an art fair at the Workshop in Vauxhall is being run by the Art Car Boot Fair people on Sunday, December 1.
'Little Christmas Fair' is a real barn find
25 November 2019Now in its sixth year, the 'Little Christmas Fair' in The Barn at Lark Rise, Lambdens Hill, Beenham, near Reading in Berkshire, is on Friday and Sunday, December 6-7.
Local antique dealers organise Christmas brocante in Suffolk
25 November 2019The regular Halesworth Brocante runs in the Old Print Works on Saturday, December 7, the same day as the Christmas market in the small market town in north Suffolk, 10 miles from the coast.
Tree of Ages' roots now laid down in Surrey
25 November 2019Launched two years ago at a Victorian mansion at Nutley in Surrey by local antiques dealer David Steel, the 25-dealer 'Tree of Ages Antiques Fair' runs four times a year at Robert Denholm House.
Little Vintage Lover Fairs heads back to the Norfolk coast
25 November 2019Launched in Norfolk 10 years ago by local Zoe Keegan, the Little Vintage Lover Fairs team will be back at the same venue where it all started in the pretty coastal village of Blakeney for the winter Christmas fair on Sunday, December 1, at the village hall.
Bumper December at Ally Pally
18 November 2019Organiser IACF and large array of dealers looking forward to ‘lucrative’ time of year
Create a scandalous collection
18 November 2019The intriguing name for Benjamin Smith’s Norfolk business came from an ink sgraffito painting he bought at Spitalfields antiques market.