Events

Led by Helen Stead, local TACS member and tile enthusiast.

Meeting point will be St Martin on the Hill Church. Sites should include: the Spa, Burmantofts ladies toilets, the Grand Hotel, a couple of hotels on the Crescent, the train station for LNER map, Stephen Joseph theatre, a butcher’s shop, an NHS building, Albemarle Baptist Church, Mecca bingo, Natwest, old Pizza hut.

There will be a lot of walking involved but we will make use of two of the cliff lifts (this costs around £5 per person).

Cost £10 per person (plus cliff lift costs).

TACS Members are cordially invited to a private viewing of the tile collection of the late Roger Hensman, long serving TACS Treasurer and contributor to Glazed Expressions, at Fieldings Auctioneers Ltd in Stourbridge on Tuesday 25th June. The Roger Hensman Tile Collection – From Delft to De Morgan – constitutes approx. 5000 tiles covering the history of ceramic tile manufacture and design from around the world with examples from leading manufacturers and designers including antique, Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Mid Century Design. 

A guided walk of Stourbridge taking in some of its ceramic highlights will take place at 1pm led by Rob Higgins. Viewing will take place from 2pmfollowed at 4-5pm by talks from Will Farmer, Director of Fieldings Auctioneers and Antique’s Roadshow presenter, and Rob Higgins, De Morgan author and tile collector, with refreshments served. Rob will bring the collection to life in Roger’s own words with quotes from Collector’s Corner. Both browsers and buyers are welcome. The sale of the collection will take place on Wednesday 26th June.

Please register your interest in the walk and / or the viewing and talks events@tacsuk.org RSVP by Friday June 14th. This event is free to members.

AGM to take place at 2PM Saturday 6th July in the Education Seminar Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Free to attend the AGM

Guided walk 11AM-1PM visiting The Divinity School, the Round Church, the All Saints ‘Painted Church’ and Lloyds Bank. £10 per person

Organised by Alan Swale, Chair, TACS.
Hathern Terra Cotta is the UK’s leading manufacturer of traditional hand pressed architectural terra cotta & faience located near Loughborough in Leicestershire https://www.mbhplc.co.uk/hathern-terra-cotta/

We may also organise a visit to another local tilemaker on Friday 4th October TBC. These locations are close to Nottingham so any members visiting the Tile Fair on the Saturday may want to spend the weekend in the area.

Please register your interest by e mailing events@tacsuk.org and you will be sent more details in due course.

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Please contact the TACS Events Secretary, with any questions, email: events@tacsuk.org