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Title
Papers of Arthur Osborne Ladell
Reference
LAD
Production date
1895 - 1940

Creator

Ladell, Arthur Osborne (fl 1896-1972), Harold Wood Biography Biography
Arthur Osborne Ladell worked for the Great Eastern Railway (GER) and subsequently for the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) when the GER was absorbed into the LNER in 1921. He was recruited into the Great Eastern Railway in 1895 after enquiring to the Goods Managers Office. At this time he appears to have lived in Harold Wood, Essex. By 1909 Ladell appears to have been recruited at and/or receiving training in the Mineral Manager’s Office, Liverpool Street Station, London. He was in employment with the LNER in 1940 and received a certificate in anti-gas training in the same year.

Scope and Content
Papers cover the career of Arthur Osborne Ladell at the Great Eastern Railway. They mostly cover years when he appears to be training for positions and also include letters covering his initial appointment with the company.
Extent
11 items
Physical description
Good condition
Language
English
Archival history
Donated to the National Railway Museum by a relative of Arthur Osborne Ladell in a series of donations 1982-1984. They were originally donated with printed material e.g. programmes, booklets and guides and also photographs probably originating from Ladell and other members of the family who worked on the railway. These were separated and accessioned separately. Details of printed material deposited are as follows (these are repeated in the related unit of description). 1998-9930 - Musical score of "Christmas Eve" for Soprano solo, Male Voice Chorus and Orchestral Accompaniment by Stanley Marchant for Col Wm Johnson Galloway and the London & North Eastern Railway Musical Society 1998-9929 - Card showing Lord Claud J Hamilton, Chairman and John Foster Esq, Deputy Chairman of Great Eastern Railway 1998-9544 - Menu card of 47th Annual Trip and Dinner to Yarmouth of the Liverpool Street Headquarters Staff of Great Eastern Railway, 27 May 1933. 1998-9543 - Christmas card from Mr Wm. C. May and staff, Mineral Manager's Office, Liverpool Street Station, December 1904. 1998-9542 - Menu card of 36th Annual Dinner of the Officers and Staff of Great Eastern Railway at Great Eastern Railway Hotel, Liverpool Street, London, 26 June 1920. 1998-9541 - Itinerary card for Traffic Department "General Offices", Great Eastern Railway Staff Outing to Clacton-on-Sea, 5 June 1920. 1998-9540 - Itinerary card for Traffic Department "General Offices", Great Eastern Railway Staff Outing to Clacton-on-Sea, 5 June 1920. 1998-9539 - Menu card, Great Eastern Railway, [unidentified]. 1998-9536 - Programme of complimentary concert to be given to H M Forces in the YMCA Hall (Bostock's), White City by Great Eastern Railway Musical Society, 7th season, 13 April 1915; Programme of smoking concert to be given in the Hamilton Hall, Abercorn Rooms, EC by The Great Eastern Musical Society, 4 November 1909. 1998-9535 - Two cards, "Christmas, 1908" with Coat of Arms of Great Eastern Railway, 1908. 1998-9534 - Programme and words of Grand Evening Concert at Royal Albert Hall, for The Railwaymen's Convalescent Homes viz. The Passmore Edwards Convalescent Home for Railwaymen, Herne Bay, Kent, and The King Edward VII Memorial Convalescent Home for Railwaymen, Leasowe, Cheshire, 23 November 1912. 1998-9533 - Itinerary sheet for [Great Eastern Railway], Mineral Manager's Department 2nd Annual Outing and Dinner at Shepperton. [Hand drawn and photostatted], 13 June 1903; Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway, Mineral Manager's Office 6th Annual Outing to Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. [Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted], 13 June 1903; Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway, Mineral Manager's Department 8th Annual Outing to Bournemouth. [Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted], 21/22 May 1909; Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Mineral Manager's Department 9th Annual Outing at Hastings. [Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted], 27/28 May 1910; Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Mineral Office (London), 10th Annual Outing to Felixstowe via Ipswich and the Orwell. [Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted], 20 May 1911. 1998-9532 - Programme sheet for Great Eastern Railway, H.Q.G. & R.S.O., O. & C. Depts and friends Staff Outing to Clacton [Hand drawn and photostatted], 31 May 1919. 1998-9531 - Menu card for London & North Eastern Railway Police (Southern Area) Annual Dinner, at Liverpool Street Station Hotel, London, 14 December 1928.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
National Railway Museum, York

Associated people and organisations

Great Eastern Railway Co Biography Biography
The Great Eastern Railway was formed in 1862 by the amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway and four smaller companies, East Anglian, Newmarket, Eastern Union and Norfolk Railways. Its area of operations was East London and the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. It operated mainline services to Ipswich, Norwich, Cambridge and Kings Lynn and branch line services throughout its area. Its principal London station was Liverpool Street, opened in 1874-5 as a replacement for the less conveniently situated Bishopsgate, and this was the centre of an intense suburban service noted for punctuality and the general slickness of its operation. It eventually participated in several joint railways in the London area. The GER developed holiday traffic to the resorts of Clacton, Southend, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. It served the port of Harwich, where its boat trains connected with its ferry services to the Continent. The main goods traffic from East Anglia was agricultural produce and fish from Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. It gained access to the coalfields via the line from Doncaster to March jointly owned with the Great Northern Railway. Initially the GER had a near monopoly in East Anglia but this was challenged in Norfolk by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. The GER and the MGNJR eventually worked together in attempts to develop holiday traffic by jointly forming the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway. The GER’s main works were at Stratford in East London where most of its locomotives were built. Its locomotive engineers included S W Johnson, William Adams, T W Worsdell, Robert Sinclair and James Holden. The GER became part of the London & North Eastern Railway under Grouping in 1923.
London & North Eastern Musical Society Biography Biography
The Great Eastern Musical society was created in 1908, William Johnson Galloway largely being given credit for the formation of this society with its choir and orchestra drawn entirely from rail staff. Concerts were given periodically in the Hamilton Hall of the Liverpool Street Hotel. These concerts often being described as ‘Bohemian’ due to their informality in arrangement, with audiences grouped in friendly fashion around tables at which refreshments were served between the items. The wife of the director or chief officer, armed with a mallet would act as ‘M.C.’ and often even Galloway would perform as conductor. Performances of the society were not just limited to Hamilton Hall, often they would travel to places of distinction such as Queen’s Hall and in cities as far as York and Edinburgh. Renowned conductors even lent their service to the society, such as Air Henry J. Wood, Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Sir Landon Ronald. In 1923 Great Eastern Railway was grouped with other railways to form the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). The society’s name changed to the London & North Eastern Musical Society in 1924.

Subject
Correspondence
Music organisations
Musical performances
Railways
Diaries
Membership
Certificates
World War Two, 1939-1945
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Related object

Papers of the LNER & GER Musical Society Notes Notes
Arthur Osborne Ladell's archive contains a musical score from the London & North Eastern Railway Musical Society and a programme for a concert held by The Great Eastern Railway Musical Society
Civil Defence Archive for British Railways Eastern Region Notes Notes
Arthur Osborne Ladell was trained in air raid precautions, there are files re air raid precautions in the British Railways Eastern Region Civil Defence archive
Records of Wolverton Carriage and Wagon Works Notes Notes
Arthur Osborne Ladell was trained in air raid precautions, there are files re air raid precautions in the Wolverton Works archive

Appraisal
None
System of arrangement
Items are arranged by format of record and chronologically.