IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/T
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: RAILWAY TAVERN LIMITED
Date(s): 1919-1962
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.63 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Railway Tavern Co Ltd | public house management company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Railway Tavern, located in Liverpool Street, near the train station, was owned originally by the Metropolitan Railway Company and was leased by the Company in 1907 to Thomas Read Hull for the term of 99 years.
The company of Hull and Venner Limited was formed in 1919 as a joint venture between James Henry Hull and the Forest Hill Brewery Company and the former agreed to leased the the Railway Tavern to Hull and Venner Limited for a period of 21 years. However, by 1922 it had been agreed that Hull and Venner Limited would take over the lease, compensating J.H. Hull accordingly, and in 1922 a special resolution was passed to increase the capital of the company to £25,000 which was divided into ordinary shares of £1 each. These were divided amongst the interested parties. The directors of the new company were Edwin John Venner and with James Henry Hull.
Whitbread gained an interest of 5,000 shares in The Railway Tavern through its takeover of the Forest Hill Brewery Company which became Whitbread Properties Limited. Whitbread bought out the rest of the Company in 1936 and then sold half of the shares to Bass Ratcliff & Gretton Limited in December of the same year.
In April 1937, it was agreed to change the name of the Company from Hull and Venner Limited to The Railway Tavern Company which was then brought under the auspices of Whitbread's Improved Public House Company Limited. John Edmund Martineau, John Stewart Eagles and Charles James Theobalds replaced James Hull and Edwin Venner as directors of the company although Martineau relinquished his post during the War and was replaced by Gilbert Keith Dunning.
The Railway Tavern was refitted in 2005.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Railway Tavern Company Limited, including corporate minutes and correspondence, accounts and property files consisting of title deeds, mortgages and papers relating to stocks and bonds.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LMA/4453/T/01: Minutes and correspondence;
LMA/4453/T/02: Accounts;
LMA/4453/T/03: Alterations to property;
LMA/4453/T/04: Deeds;
LMA/4453/T/05: Stocks and shares.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 2001 as a gift.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also LMA/4453/M (Forest Hill Brewery Company) and LMA/4453/N (Improved Public House Company Ltd).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010