Archive Article: 2002/05/10

10 May 2002

Joe Lawson, chairman of the association of past Harper Adams students in Ireland, returns the framed Minton tile to chairman of governors Tony Burgess. The tile, datemarked 1856, once belonged to Thomas Harper Adams, the founder of the Shropshire college. It hung in a farmhouse on the site until it was "liberated" by a past student 40 years ago. The handover took place at the recent Harper Adams in Ireland Centennial Dinner in Portlaoise.