TACS Events 2026
How to book
E mail your booking request with event and names of all attendees to events@tacsuk.org and transfer any donation/ booking fee to TACS account number 00221121 at 30-00-04 with reference: ‘EVENTS SURNAME’ (insert your surname).
Non-members can ask to attend a taster event to decide if they want to join. For more information about TACS Events please e-mail: events@tacsuk.org
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
Please see the Previous TACS Events page for earlier 2026 events.
Thursday April 23rd, 11am-4pm, Phoenix Tile Studio and Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke on Trent, max 30 people
We will meet at 11am for a tour of the working Phoenix Tile Studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme with Sarah Watson www.phoenixtilestudio.co.uk. There will be a break for lunch followed by a curator led tour of the Gladstone Pottery Museum with Ceramics Curator, Ben Miller in the afternoon.
Members may want to extend their visit and explore the local area with the Visit Stoke Potteries Tile Trail https://www.visitstoke.co.uk/ideas-and-inspirations/potteries-tile-trail
Cost £10 per person (plus reduced price entry to the museum £7.10 payable on the day)
Sunday June 7th, 11am – 4pm, The Brickworks Museum and Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire, with local tile historian, Jo Amey
We will meet at The Brickworks Museum, Swanwick nr Southampton, at 11am for a guided tour followed by time to explore the collection at leisure afterwards. As well as an extensive collection of bricks and brick-making equipment there are also tiles and terracotta features on display.
At approximately 2.30 pm we will meet again at Titchfield Abbey, four miles from the Brick Museum, to see the pavements of medieval tiles in situ. Admission is free to this English Heritage site but there is a charge for the car park, currently £2.00. The Abbey closes at 5pm.
Cost £10 per person, includes admission and guided tour, min 10 max 20 people, pls book by 1st April
AGM, Saturday July 4th, 11am-4pm, Birmingham
Guided walk followed by AGM, venue TBC
Cost £10 per person (AGM is free to attend)
Manchester walk, Saturday 3rd October (change of date), 11am – 4pm, led by Mark Watson postponed from 2025
Postponed from 2025 due to bus strikes, this is a tour of the Oxford Road corridor and will start at Java coffee bar outside Oxford Road Station. We shall take a bus down Oxford Road/Wilmslow Road to Platt Lane and return on foot to central Manchester looking at a number of buildings on the way including Platt Lane church, Manchester Eye Hospital, Holy Name church, Holy Name church hall, the Grosvenor cinema, the Manchester School of Art and other Manchester Municipal University buildings, the Regal Twins cinema, Shaw’s warehouse, the Refuge Assurance buildings, the Oxford/Whitworth Street terracotta warehouse buildings, the Midland Hotel and depending on time maybe some more.
Finishing off with a meal at Tom’s terracotta and tiled historic Chop House.
Cost £10 per person plus meal and local bus fares at own expense
Other Events
If you would like to advertise a tile event or give a talk to TACS members about anything related to tiles or architectural ceramics, please get in touch email: events@tacsuk.org
Annual Tile Fair, Nottingham
As announced at our AGM in July 2025, TACS will no longer organise an Annual Tile Fair in Nottingham. Many members will have fond memories of the fair, sadly there are not enough dealers or visitors to warrant an event in the internet age.
Previous Events & Virtual Event replays
See the Previous TACS Events page for details of previous TACS Events, including On-Demand replays of previous TACS Zoom Events.
