They have been stuck on for at least 30 years but now a lot are falling off. They seem to have used some kind of glue not mortar and then done some pointing using mortar. I used a tube of Evostik external adhesive (forgot the name - binned) to test and that seems to have worked but that was about £10 for a few tiles.
The larger tiles are about 1kg so quite heavy.
I need maybe 1kg of something. But what? I see stuff for £40 or more. Hoping there is something cheaper.