Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
‘It’s like Liberty’s in Norfolk’
24 April 2026Dealer duo win praise for new shop hosting 25 traders across two floors in a former furniture store
Get hooked in by Horace at the National Vintage Tackle Fair
24 April 2026This splendid image depicts Horace Brown, a former president of the Piscatorial Society.
Builth Wells fair built on a good base
24 April 2026IACF’s first outpost in Wales was established last year when the organisers took over Continuity Fairs’ biannual antiques fair in Builth Wells.
New antiques market adds to the buzz in Ledbury
17 April 2026The Ledbury Collective in the so-named design quarter in the attractive Herefordshire town was opened last year by Sarah Baldwin.
An event that borders on the inspirational
17 April 2026“Unfortunately, Paxton House won’t allow us to chop down any historic trees to add more marquees,” joked Seppe Anthony, co-organiser at Glam Racket Events.
Antiques fair is a surprise success in Orkney
17 April 2026Colin Richards is professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands on the Orkney Islands.
Next Beccles Antiques Market is in May
10 April 2026This vintage duck model is on advertising duties for the annual Beccles Antiques Market run since 2009 by dealer Kate Lee.
French brocante in an Essex house
10 April 2026Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .
Antiques shops: from The Gold Mine to Vintage Vaults
10 April 2026Second Llandudno business gets off the ground
Dealer opens shop in Wales after decade away
02 April 2026A young antiques dealer who specialises in vintage watches has opened a shop in the north Wales town of Holywell, in Flintshire.
‘Do I need 30 patchwork quilts?’
02 April 2026Natalia Rawley is a passionate antiques-hunter-gatherer and shares her loved possessions at home in Wiltshire with her four sons.
Queen's centenary turns focus to royal items
02 April 2026The centenary of the late queen’s birth on April 21, 1926, will be marked by the opening of an exhibition in the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.
Antiques fairs: be inspired by new Staffs event
27 March 2026Dominating the skyline in the Staffordshire city of Lichfield is the only medieval cathedral in the UK with three spires.
Making deals and burning rubber
27 March 2026Shift from racecourse to motor-racing venue also gives traders opportunity to drive a sports car
London fleamarket: take it to the bridge
27 March 2026Christian Scrimgeour of Flea London in Vinegar Yard and Flat Iron Square is returning to canalside Hackney Bridge for her permanent weekend fleamarket.
Old Cinema goes green
27 March 2026Following the success of its vintage fashion pop-up in February, The Old Cinema in west London has gone green with a show of items laid out in a garden setting at the centre including the yard.
Airliner scrap parts taken to another level
20 March 2026Commercial airliner parts once destined for the scrapyard are now being upcycled by a Suffolk firm.
Organiser launches event in west London focusing on antiques with a botanical theme
20 March 2026Judy Berger of Judy’s Vintage Fair, which runs vintage furniture and fashion fairs and fleamarkets across the UK, with a focus on London, is launching something unusual: The Kensington Botanical Market.
‘Social history’ always sells well says postcards specialist
13 March 2026Ahead of a major two-day postcard collector festival, a dealer explains the draw of the most popular types
Love is all around (in the south)
13 March 2026What’s not to love at a couple of Love Fairs’ events which are held at two racecourses in southern England?