Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
From Far East to East Midlands
07 August 2017Back in the day, the most common overseas buyer at IACF Newark would have been American. However, a larger number now hails from the Far East, with visitors from Korea, Japan and Taiwan making up 30% of the overseas buyer numbers at the East Midlands event, according to IACF estimates.
Honeypot Antiques Centre holds a last sale
07 August 2017After a successful 21 years of trading, 16 of them under the current management, Honeypot Antiques Centre is closing later this month because the site has been sold for redevelopment.
The Berkshire town hungry for antiques
07 August 2017Hungerford is a handy hub for art and antiques fairs judging by two events held in the Berkshire town.
Provence sets out its stalls
07 August 2017Isle sur La Sorgue, near Avignon, is one of the most ravishing towns in Provence.
Organisers B2B and Bentleys at the double for joint south coast fair
24 July 2017Bookings are going well for the collaborative venture between B2B Events and Bentleys Fairs at the beginning of August.
Story of a pug called Duke and catching the collecting bug
24 July 2017As with many collectors and dealers, the antiques passion started in an auction room. As a child, some of Amanda Allinson’s earliest memories are of sitting with her grandma in the County Durham rooms of Addisons Auctioneers in Barnard Castle, the town where she grew up.
Go with the market flow in Milan
24 July 2017Milan’s Navigli district dates to the 12th century and nine centuries later it is full of vintage shops, restaurants and bars, with its canals a great backdrop for the city’s biggest antiques and vintage market.
Beach huts and a buzz greet visitors to beautiful Suffolk
24 July 2017The pretty Suffolk coastal town of Southwold is well known for its delightful pier, Adnam’s brewery, multi-coloured beach huts and a Grade II-listed lighthouse in the middle of the town.
Fairground and classic cars roar in to Rutland
24 July 2017Gary Halford of Guildhall Antique Fairs is anticipating upwards of 150 stallholders at his annual antiques and vintage event at the Rutland County Showground, Oakham.
Selection of summer fairs and markets
24 July 2017The summer fairs and markets scene is cranking into high gear, so here is a short selection over the next two weekends.
Norfolk young dealers in Clover
17 July 2017Along with its sister group in the US, members of Antiques Young Guns – “brilliant old things from bright young things” – now span at least three continents. AYG’s core message of support for up-and-coming professionals in the trade has never been stronger.
Business ticking right Berkshire boxes – and striking it Rich in Lewes
17 July 2017What is selling well in the clocks and watches world? Dealer Warren Wilkinson, who has been collecting and repairing clocks and watches for 40 years and who is a regular standholder at Love Fairs events, is a good man to answer that very question.
Brighton gains new vintage fair
17 July 2017Launched earlier this year, the two-day New Road Vintage Market in Brighton has four dates in 2017, with the next on Saturday and Sunday, July 22-23.
Get your teeth into seaside treats
10 July 2017The Dublin-born journalist Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker’s first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, a handbook of legal administration in Ireland, hit the streets in 1879.
I want it Hall: club’s annual fair
10 July 2017Held in Staffordshire this Saturday (July 15) is the annual Old Hall Collectors’ Club Fair.
Oh, what a lovely war weekend
10 July 2017Looking at the images from Leyburn’s 1940s Weekend held at Thornborough Hall and in the main town square, you might think you were on a Second World War film or TV set.
Wander through a Welsh county
03 July 2017Carmarthenshire is full of delights for antiques buyers. Here, we look at a brocante trial, views of castles coming up at a fair and another event in which you can go potty at a botanic garden.
Pair of Belgian treats in Brussels and Bruges
03 July 2017The Brussels Vintage Market was launched in 2010 at the delightfully named café Madame Moustache with about a dozen vintage vendors.
Cinema venue for vintage in Sheffield
03 July 2017A vintage, salvage and artisan market with lots of music, entertainment and speciality food stalls, as well as clothes and homewares, will be held inside and outside The Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield’s Antiques Quarter on Sunday, July 9.
Grenfell fundraiser launch
03 July 2017A festival to help raise funds for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in London and their families will run at Windsor Racecourse on Saturday, September 23.