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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
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London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee
Catalogue reference: MT 37
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MT 37
This series consists of minutes and papers of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.The records comprise papers dealing with the formation and organization of the Committee, minutes of its meetings, its working papers, and the...
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MT 37
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Title (The name of the record)
- London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee
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Date (When the record was created)
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1924-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes and papers of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.
The records comprise papers dealing with the formation and organization of the Committee, minutes of its meetings, its working papers, and the preparation of the annual reports it was required to make to the Minister of Transport, and which were laid before Parliament.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files of the London Traffic Division are in MT 129
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from this series have been re-registered in the RTC series in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, 1924-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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60 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1966-1968 Ministry of Transport
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- Topics
- Transport management
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee was established in 1924 with the purpose of advising the Minister of Transport in the exercise of his powers relating to the improved regulation of traffic within the London Traffic area.
In 1933, the Committee was reconstituted with increased local authority representation.
The Committee was wound up by the London Government Act, 1963.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11086/
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The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster
On one tragic night in March 1943 in Bethnal Green, East London, 173 people lost their lives taking shelter from German bombing as the air raid sirens sounded.
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