Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Over 60 stalls for market in Norfolk Broads town
07 August 2023Antiques and vintage street markets proliferate across the UK, particularly in the summer.
Curated in the Cotswolds again
07 August 2023The Cotswolds Vintage Fairs has been run annually with various curators in August for 13 years at the village hall at Toddington, near Broadway.
West Yorkshire's Lotherton Hall hosts vintage event
07 August 2023The lawns at the front of Lotherton Hall, an Edwardian country house at Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, will be buzzing with the sights and sounds of a vintage weekend on Saturday and Sunday, August 12-13.
Car park becomes temporary fair venue in Northampton
07 August 2023Northampton’s Monday to Saturday market has had to resort to a temporary location in the Commercial Street car park during the £8.5m renovation of the town’s historic market square.
Lily Antiques moves to new showroom in Cirencester
07 August 2023Former kennels at the site of AS Fairs’ new three-day event in Gloucestershire now house a dealership
Blackdog Events adds garden setting to growing schedule of fairs
24 July 2023A charming 18th century five-acre walled garden in north Norfolk is the latest in the lengthening portfolio of fairs in interesting venues organised by Suffolk-based Blackdog Events.
Stags Head takes over Northamptonshire fair
24 July 2023Stags Head Events is taking over the biannual antiques and vintage fair at Lamport Hall near Northampton organised for about 15 years by Antiques2Go.
Market also offers an indoor event
24 July 2023Last year Adam Game launched his monthly antiques and vintage street market in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted.
Fresh shoots grow in Stoneleigh
17 July 2023New fair is set to use Midlands agricultural exhibition centre venue that will be familiar to many visitors
French fair benefits from Brexit effect
17 July 2023Most of the exhibitors at the spring edition of the biannual antiques fair held in the enchanting antiques-laden Provençal town of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue come from the south of France with a couple from Italy and Belgium.
Book dealers hope for Hay big spenders at new fair
10 July 2023A look ahead to the new PBFA fair in a renowned town for book-lovers.
Antiques on High empire extends now to Harrogate
10 July 2023An antiques centre which has been a fixture in Harrogate for many years is the latest acquisition by Antiques on High’s Vincent Page and his partner Lesley White.
Love Fairs takes over Kent event
03 July 2023B2B gives up the Detling Showground organisation after more than a decade but still runs Malvern
Here comes the sun and a north London street fair extravaganza
03 July 2023The return last month on a sunlit June day of the annual Church Street Antiques Fair in Marylebone after a four-year absence was hailed as a cracker – with a call for this event to be a more regular occurrence.
Ally Pally prepares for relaunch
26 June 2023New organiser reveals strong trade interest and visitor pre-bookings for the eagerly awaited event
Emporium joins the line-up
26 June 2023The owners of an antiques centre in a large leisure and shopping village near Stowmarket in Suffolk are opening a second branch nearby just two years after the first one welcomed its first buyers.
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26 June 2023A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.
World-famous bottle and advertising fair returns to Elsecar
19 June 2023International stallholders are among those all set for a renowned bottle and advertising fair and auction
Nottingham's Lady Bay Vintage fair to open with 40 dealers
19 June 2023Forty dealers spread across four venues in Nottingham a few minutes walk from each other is the enticing prospect for Mid-century buyers.
Bayliss family bid fond farewell to Epsom fair after more than 30 years
12 June 2023Epsom Antique Fair has a new owner.