Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Fifty years on, monthly event in Dorking is still going strong
06 March 2026This year marks the 50th anniversary of the monthly Dorking Halls Antiques & Decorative Arts Fair, founded by the late Margaret Brown.
Hail a pop-up in new west London venue
06 March 2026The Midcentury Modern team, aka Lucy Ryder Richardson, Petra Curtis and Tanya Pateman, are launching a pop-up on Saturday, June 13, with 40 dealers at a very cool venue in west London.
Brocantes create a buzz in Lincolnshire
06 March 2026Ruth Domanski and Shauna Donaldson launched an antiques brocante in the walled garden at the Grade I-listed Grantham House, a National Trust townhouse on the outskirts of the Lincolnshire town of the same name, in 2023.
Fuel for thought in Wapping
27 February 2026The now Grade II-listed Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in east London will reopen its doors this weekend for the first time in 13 years – which is good news also for Go East Vintage, aka Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere.
Winnie the Pooh hits 100 mark
27 February 2026Forget Paddington Bear. Think Winnie-the-Pooh “I am a bear of very little brain…”, whose 100th anniversary this year celebrates the first outing of the gentle bear and his beloved friends including the “small and anxious” Piglet.
Lovely venue but not big enough
27 February 2026Organiser of Kent event makes plea for larger space as dealers struggle to fit into Victorian village hall
Bazaar owner calls it a day in Somerset
20 February 2026Crewkerne centre closes down amid tributes paid to a ‘professional, friendly bunch of traders’
One door closes, another opens as shop shifts along
20 February 2026This Easter Clare Smith will be relaunching her shop Vintage by the Sea in Saltburn, her home town on the north-east coast of Yorkshire.
Madge pops down to Margate
13 February 2026Visit from ‘Queen of Pop’ underlines just how much there is to see in Kent town including art and antiques
Chiswick's Old Cinema in step with fashion
06 February 2026News of west London dealer collective holding a pop-up – plus lots more to visit in bustling Chiswick
Tree of Ages takes root on Sundays
06 February 2026Back in August 2023 dealer Dave Steel of Tree of Ages Antiques Fairs saddled up and took over the midweek Epsom Antiques Fair run at Epsom Racecourse by the Bayliss family of Continuity Fairs for 30 years.
Fired up ready for four arms fairs
30 January 2026First Kempton event this year will involve 100 dealers at the racecourse venue
Be my vintage Valentine
30 January 2026According to the Greeting Card Association, the UK spend on Valentine’s Day in 2024 was more than £51m with around 25 million cards sent.
Stereoscopes: my view on a specialist field
30 January 2026A recent item on BBC Antiques Roadshow focused on a collection of stereoscopes, some dating to the 1850s.
Judy feeds the soul with her ‘delightful’ vintage fairs
23 January 2026Judy Berger founded Judy’s Vintage Fairs in Leeds in 2005, after she described a vintage event back then as “less Velvet Underground, more Vera Lynn”.
Monthly vintage market boosts antiques offering in Knutsford
23 January 2026Indoor event at hall in Cheshire town could expand to outdoors as well as the weather improves
Taste of ginger at Leeds hall
23 January 2026Pudsey Civic Hall in Leeds is the venue on Sunday, February 8, for another of the vintage home fairs run by dealer Lisa Doel of Ginger Biscuit Events,
‘Most desirable’ places to be for antiques lovers
16 January 2026Focus on businesses based in two towns rated among ‘most desirable’ in the UK by newspaper
No need to invade, just make a purchase
16 January 2026In the light of world focus on Greenland, would-be collectors of polar ephemera might head to PBFA member Stuart Leggatt and his website Meridian Rare Books that has masses of it.
Make it a Burns night to savour
09 January 2026His image appears in seemingly every possible format, from postage stamps to chocolates and biscuit tins.