Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Maslen-Wells, Patrick Thomas
Dates of creation: 1926-1945
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Maslen-Wells, Patrick Thomas
Language:
English
(1894 - 1983)
| | |
| 1914-1918 | War service on the Western Front and during the capture of Jerusalem |
| 1919-1922 | Various posts in London, Manchester, and Bourneville |
| 1922-1925 | Captain/Engineer, Khartoum, Steamer Section, Railways and Steamers Department |
| 1925-1933 | Dockyard Foreman, Port Sudan, Steamer Section, Railways Department |
| 1933-1938 | Foreman, Khartoum North, Southern Reach, Steamer Section, Railways Department |
| 1938-1940 | Agent, Kareima, Kareima Reach, Steamer Section, Railways Department |
| 1939-1940 | Bimbashi, Sudan Defence Force |
| 1940-1945 | Dockyard Manager, Khartoum North, Southern Reach, Steamer Section, Railways Department |
| 1945 | Left the Sudan |
1. Photographic Material
2. Maps
3. Miscellanea
4. Museum Objects
5. Printed Material
Presented by Mrs J. Dodd, 1985-1986
Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
SAD.855/1/1-96
1932
Photographs of Port Sudan, Khor Abat, and Suakin
SAD.855/1/1
The tomb of
Shaykh Barghut
SAD.855/1/5-6
Yemenese labourers unloading
SAD.855/1/13-14
Odd corners of the harbour
SAD.855/1/17-20
The dockyard: cleaning a tug on the slips
SAD.855/1/26-27
Departure of Khartoum train
SAD.855/1/28
Travelling Post Office van
SAD.855/1/29-30
The Khartoum express in Port Sudan station
SAD.855/1/34
Charcoal arriving for sale
SAD.855/1/39-40
The Eastern Telegraph Buildings
SAD.855/1/43
The Bank street looking South
SAD.855/1/45
‘Park Lane’ : the Commissioner's house in the distance
SAD.855/1/53-54
Railway labourers' houses
SAD.855/1/55
Native huts at Port Sudan
SAD.855/1/57-58
Grain shops in the modern
deim
SAD.855/1/60
Picnic near ‘Jebel Hendrey’
SAD.855/1/62
P.T. Maslen-Wells preparing the boat “Mynzalaga ”
SAD.855/1/64
Tea on the Muhammad Qul road
SAD.855/1/65
Desmond ‘rests’ at picnic
SAD.855/1/67
1932
Bishop Gwynne and Padre Tanner consecrating Port Sudan church
SAD.855/1/73
The site of the filming of
The Four Feathers
SAD.855/1/74
The
khor and rest house looking north-west
SAD.855/1/76-77
The rest house and
khor looking east
SAD.855/1/85
A 233 crossing the splash
SAD.855/1/88-89
Maslen-Wells and 'P' cooling off
SAD.855/1/96
Quaintly carved doorway, Suakin
(b) Loose Photographs and Postcards SAD.855/2/1-6
n.d.
Postcards of the Sudan
SAD.855/2/1
Maslen-Wells and staff of the Railways department?
SAD.855/2/6
General view of Khartoum (note from 'P' to 'Mrs Wells')
SAD.855/2/7-27
n.d.
Postcards of Palestine, Beirut, Cairo and Nairobi
SAD.855/3/1-12
n.d.
Postcards of the antiquities of Thebes, Karnak and Luxor
2. Maps
SAD.862/2/15
n.d.
Souvenir guide map of Cairo, Egypt
scale: No scale
Size: 38.5 x 32 cm
SAD.862/2/16 [MP]
n.d.
Sabaloka Gorge, Sudan
scale: 10cm to 25km
Size: 65 x 44.5 cm
3. Miscellanea
SAD.862/2/1-14
1926-1945
Ephemera from Maslen-Wells' time in the Sudan, including a record of his career (SAD.862/2/1), invitations to social functions by the Governor-General (SAD.862/2/2-7), a menu and map published by Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours
(SAD.862/2/8), a permit to enter Eritrea during wartime (SAD.862/2/9), a printed letter from Bishop Gwynne on his eightieth birthday (SAD.862/2/10), part of Maslen-Wells' farewell speech in Arabic (SAD.862/2/11), greetings cards from the Sudan
Ambassador (SAD.862/2/12-13), and a newspaper photograph of a habub over Khartoum (SAD.862/2/14)
Language: English, Arabic
4. Museum Objects
SAD.858/3
1933
Silver plate inscribed [in Arabic] “Port Sudan, Suakin, Feb, March 1933”
Language:
Arabic
SAD.858/4
1932
Silver ashtray inscribed [in Arabic] “Congratulations, Omdurman, 1932”
Language:
Arabic
SAD.858/5
1933
Silver ashtray inscribed [in Arabic] “Congratulations, Omdurman, 1933”
Language:
Arabic
SAD.858/6-858/7
1933
Two silver bowls inscribed [in Arabic] “Congratulations, Omdurman, 1933”
Language:
Arabic
5. Printed Material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue
A Brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, Jerusalem Published by the Supreme Moslem Council (1935, Jerusalem)
Fascinating Egypt and Sudan Guide Published by The African World (1922-1923 season)
The Illustrated London News (15 Dec 1917, 15 Feb 1947)
The Sudan Daily Herald (16 Jun 1934, 9 Dec 1939)
The Sudan Railways Bulletin No. 75, 70th anniversary number (Feb 1945)
Sudan, Ministry of Information and Labour, Tourism Section: Sudan Tourist Guide (2nd edition, 1962)
Sudan Star (6 Jun 1944, 23 Apr 1945, 2 May 1945, 18 Sep 1945)
The Wonderland of Big Game Programme souvenir to a film by Major A.R. Dugmore made in 1922
