2023-2026 Virtual Event replays are available to TACS Members only. Please contact the Events Secretary for the Password events@tacsuk.org
TACS Events 2026
January 22nd, Open Lecture ‘Printed Tiles Galore: the mass production and applications of Victorian transfer printed tiles’ (on Zoom). Speaker: Hans van Lemmen, TACS President
January 23rd, ‘Maw – the golden years 1850 to 1880’ (Zoom) with Rob Higgins, TACS Treasurer, tile collector and author
February 20th, ‘Tiles designed by the Dutch printmaker Mauritz Escher (1898-1972)’ (Zoom) with Hans van Lemmen, President of TACS and author of many books about tiles
March 20th, ‘Looking at and caring for medieval tiles’ (Zoom) with Lesley Durbin, Senior Conservator, Jackfield Conservation Studio, and Conservation Advisor to TACS
May 10th, Tiles of Salisbury tile walking tour in person led by Jo Amey, local tile historian and TACS committee member
4th to 6th July, Bradford weekend and AGM
TACS Events 2024
16th January, ‘An elegant garden’ – Ottoman Tilework c. 1525-1600 (on Zoom) Speaker, Dr Melanie Gibson,
15th February, Carter and Co of Poole, 1920-1970 (on Zoom) Speaker, Jo Amey,
21st March, Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Ceramics – Identifying the Primary Causes of Degradation (on Zoom) Speaker, Lesley Durbin,
27th April, Arts and Crafts Ceramics, Tiles and the De Morgans, joint event with the Northern Ceramics Society
1st June, Scarborough walking tour inc. St Martin on the Hill Church.
25th June, Tile Sale Private Viewing: The Roger Hensman Collection – From Delft to De Morgan + Stourbridge Walking Tour.
6th July, TACS AGM and local walk, Cambridge, Inc. the Divinity School, the Round Church, the All Saints ‘Painted Church’ and Lloyds Bank.
12th September, TACS Extraordinary General Meeting – On Zoom
3rd October, Hathern Terra Cotta Factory Visit
4th October, Nottingham Self Guided tour & viewing of the late Michael Blood’s art collection & home
22nd February – William de Morgan Day, South West Heritage Centre, Taunton*
4th July – 39th Annual General Meeting, Virtual AGM
Planned events cancelled due to Covid-19:-
12th-13th November – Terracotta: Past Present and Future, Manchester
1st April- Carlton Towers, Goole
24th April – curator-led tour of The National Liberal Club, London
9th May – Ceramic Bournemouth, guided walk with local tile lady Jo Amey
30th May – Burmantofts collection private viewing, West Yorkshire
4th July – TACS AGM and guided tour – V&A Museum, London
5th September – Medieval Tile Day at Norton Priory, Runcorn
3rd October – TACS annual tile fair, Nottingham
TACS Events 2019
6th April – Touching History in Stoke-on-Trent inc lecture by Hans van Lemmen
11th May – guided tile tour of Winchester cathedral and environs
8th June – tiles of Oxford inc Ashmolean curator-led tour
6th July – TACS AGM in Coventry, The Belgrade Theatre
5th October – TACS Annual Antique & Collectable Tile Fair, St Jude’s Church Hall, Nottingham
30th November – Decorative tiles in Georgian and Victorian domestic architecture, Wisbech and Fenland Museum*
TACS Events for 2018
21st April – The Ludlow Palmers’ Symposium on English Tiles (Non-TACS Organised Event).*
2nd June – London Underground tilework over the decades.
7th July – TACS AGM Liverpool.
6th October – Annual Antique & Collectable Tile Fair, Nottingham.
3rd November – Illustrated talk on ceramic and terracotta pubs in NW England, Manchester.
TACS Events for 2017
8th April – Cardiff Castle
17th June – Private view of “A Private Collection of Burmantofts Faience Pottery”. Wolley & Wallis, Salisbury.
24th June – Oppenheimer Mosaics 20th Century Society joint tour.*
1st & 2nd July – TACS AGM & Hull weekend.
4th October- Darwen Terracotta and Faience Factory tour.
7th October – Antique & Collectable Tile Fair in Nottingham.
TACS Events for 2016
30th April – Spring Trip, Brighton.
4th June – Burmantofts Tiles, Terracotta and Faience in Leeds.
2nd July – AGM – Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent.
8th October – Antique & Collectable Tile Fair in Nottingham.
TACS Events for 2015
6th-7th June – Weekend visit to Somerset.
4th July – TACS AGM and visit to Jackfield Tile Museum & ‘John Scott Gallery’.
16th October – H & R Johnson new works, Stoke-on-Trent.
3rd October – Antique & Collectable Tile Fair in Nottingham.
TACS Events for 2014
11th April – Visit to the Law Society Building, Chancery Lane, London.
5th July – AGM at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) and walking tour of Reading.
20th September – Walking Tour, Bournemouth; including a visit to the Russell Cotes Museum.
4th October – Antique Tile Fair in Nottingham.
TACS Events for 2013
9th March – private guided tour of the fabulous Grade I listed Victorian Gothic Rochdale Town Hall. and St John the Baptist RC Church with its Eric Newton mosaics, and also a look at some tiled pubs and 20th c murals.View Photos
14th June – Tile Study Day at the V&A, London. An introduction to the new ceramics galleries and then a behind-the-scenes visit to see some of the V&A tile collection.
22nd June – Visit to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. An introduction to the collection of tiles at the Ashmolean Museum.
6th July – TACS AGM and visit to Jackfield Tile Museum. The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford. The day featured a Members Forum where members discussed their tile collections . To round off the day there was a short presentation on the progress of the Heritage Lottery funded ‘The Potteries Tile Trail’.
21st and 22nd September – Open House London. A self-guided tour of London’s buildings, places and neighbourhoods. Every September is a unique opportunity to get out and explore London’s amazing architecture, with over 700 buildings of all kinds opening their doors to everyone, all for free.
11th October – British Ceramics Biennial. A tour of the Award exhibition at the Potteries Museum and an afternoon visit to the British Ceramics Biennial at the Spode Site.
TACS Events for 2012
16th June – Visit to Holburne Museum, Bath and studio of contemporary ceramic sculptor Bronwyn Williams-Ellis.
7th July – TACS AGM, Littlehampton, including an ‘open house’ to view Chris Blanchett’s collection. Sunday includes the opportunity to view tiles at Findon and Clapham church.
22-23rd September – Open House London 2012.
Saturday 29th September – Antique Tile Fair in Nottingham.
16th November – Visit to the Manchester Onward Buildings to view the extensive recently restored Band of Hope tiling scheme. Some good photographs in this article www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk
17th November – Visit to Manchester Metropolitain University to view the special collections (inc. small tile collection, replicas of Della Robbia, Manchester Society of Architects and Art School Libraries e.g. Owen Jones) followed by a walking tour, to include the Palace Hotel, and other buildings in this quarter of Manchester.
TACS Events for 2011
March 5th – Visit to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow
April 9th – Coade stone and Doulton walk along Thames Embankment and V&A visit
June 4th – Visit to a private Burmantofts collection, West Yorkshire
November 12th – Exporting Stoke and Beyond: Tiles and architectural ceramics in the world context. TACS conference being held at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. conference website
TACS Events for 2010
Visit to the Private Tile Collection (March 13th).
Visit to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent to see the reserve collection of tiles. Followed by a visit to the Wedgwood Museum (April 17th).
Visit to see the Doulton tile panels in West Kirby Residential School and the terracotta, chimney stacks and chimney pots of Port Sunlight. (May 8th) View Photos
Weekend in Hull and Hornsea (June 12th/13th) View Photos
TACS AGM in Birmingham(July 3rd)
Antique Tile Fair in Nottingham(September 25th)
TACS Events for 2009
A visit to selected tile locations in Liverpool including the Walker Art Gallery, the Town Hall, the Municipal Buildings, the Pearl Life Assurance Building, the Lion Tavern and the Cavern Wall of Fame & Lewis’ Department store(March 21st) View Photos
A weekend in Lisbon sampling the many tile delights in Lisbon such as the National Tile Museum, the Gulbenkian Musuem, the Pinheiro Museum, tiled churches and monasteries, tiled railway stations and underground stations, the Viuva Lamego tile factory. (April 25th-26th) View Photos
A Visit to Greenwich including a Coade stone tour of the former Royal Naval Hospital looking at the magnificent Coade pediment in the King William Court, and the many Coade stone statues and decorations in the Chapel of St. Peter and Paul. Also the South Building at the Royal Observatory with Doulton terracotta by W. Neatby and the relocated Greenwich mural by Philippa Threlfall (May 16th). View Photos
Medieval Tile Workshop with Diana Hall: A demonstration workshop looking at the materials and the various processes involved in medieval tile making (June 13th).
TACS AGM London (July 4th) Held at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1
Antique Tile Fair in Nottingham (September 26th)
TACS Events for 2008
The Sheila Hughes tile collection. TACS Private view and study day Fieldings Auctioneers, Stourbridge, Birmingham.(5th January).
Visit to Leeds. A tour of the latest developments including the Town Hall foyer, the reopened Tiled Hall at the Central Library, the Frank Brandwyn mosaics in St Aidens Church and the Grand Theatre (15th March).
Visit to private tile collection in Kent (26th April).
Visit to Pownell Hall, Wilmslow, Cheshire (TACS members only, limited to 25 people). An Afternoon visit to the hall which is now School and not usually open to the public. The tiles are mainly 19th and early 20th century and include some fine examples of Arts and Crafts designs. There will be a guided tour of the house by the headmaster.(May 10th)
Visit to the Reserve Collection of the Museum of London. Afternoon visit going behind the scenes at the museum of London to see the tiles not on show. (7th June)
