Events

TACS Events 2025

How to book

For live events, full information (meeting points, times, directions etc.) will be sent out after payment by e mail at least two weeks in advance.

For virtual events, a Zoom link will be sent to the e mail address used at booking at least 48 hours in advance.

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

TACS members participate in events at their own risk, and neither the Society nor its officers or servants accept any liability of any kind whatsoever, howsoever arising. TACS reserves the right to cancel, postpone or alter events as necessary

Thursday January 23rd, 6-7pm, ‘Maw – the golden years 1850 to 1880’ (Zoom) with Rob Higgins, TACS Treasurer, tile collector and author

Rob will discuss the range of design techniques employed by Maw & Co., principally in the 1850-1880 period, illustrated with many of their tiles and information from the Maw & Co. archive held by the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust.

Suggested donation £5 per person.

Thursday February 20th, 6-7pm, ‘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

The talk will look at what kind of tiles Escher designed in the 1950s and 60s, how they were made and where they were used.

Suggested donation £5 per person.

Thursday March 20th, 6-7pm, ‘Looking at and caring for medieval tiles’ (Zoom) with Lesley Durbin, Senior Conservator, Jackfield Conservation Studio, and Conservation Advisor to TACS

This lecture is on the conservation of medieval tiles. There will be opportunity for discussion and questions. The lecture will be of interest to conservation officers, architects, members of SPAB and IHBC and Historic England as well as those with a general interest in medieval tiles keen to learn more. TACS lectures are approved for CPD.

£5 per person (free to members).

Saturday May 10th, 11-1pm, Tiles of Salisbury tile walking tour in person led by Jo Amey, local tile historian and TACS committee member

Salisbury has many interesting architectural ceramics, including two faience shopfronts, a painted panel in a butchers and several facades featuring South Western Pottery terracotta. Optional visit after lunch to Salisbury Museum where the Ceramics Gallery has recently been curated by Dr Julian Richards as a ‘Potted History of Britain.’ The walk will be on reasonably flat terrain.  

£10 per person, max 20 people.

Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July, Bradford weekend and AGM

Friday 4th July, 11am-12pm: guided tour of Bradford Town Hall

Saturday 5th July, 10.30am-12.30pm: Bradford city centre walking tour, led by Abi Brown, Penny Hampson and Helen Stead

Saturday 5th July, 2-4pm: AGM, Midland Hotel, Bradford (free to attend)

Sunday 6th July, 11am-1pm: Saltaire and the Salt Mill (free to attend)

Town Hall tour £5 per person, walking tour £10 per person.

Saturday September 20th, 11-4pm, Manchester tile walk led by Mark Watson, local tile expert

Meeting at Java coffee bar outside Oxford Road Station, we’ll take a bus to Platt Lane and return on foot to central Manchester looking at a number of buildings on the Oxford Road corridor including Platt Lane church, Manchester Eye Hospital, Holy Name church and hall, Grosvenor cinema, the Manchester School of Art and other university buildings, Regal Twins cinema, Shaw’s warehouse, Refuge Assurance buildings, Oxford/Whitworth Street terracotta warehouse buildings, the Midland Hotel and maybe more. 

Finishing off with an optional meal at Tom’s tiled historic Chop House.

£10 per person, max 20 people.

Saturday October 4th, 11am-3pm, Annual Tile Fair, Nottingham

Annual antique tile fair with dealers, tea and cake at St Jude’s Church Hall, 405 Woodborough Road, Nottingham NG3 5HE.

No need to book, just turn up on the day. £6 entry.

Previous Events

See the Previous TACS Events page for details of previous TACS Events, including On-Demand replays of previous TACS Zoom Events.