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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.
Series
Ministry of Transport and successor, Co-ordination of Transport Files
Catalogue reference: MT 64
What's it about?
MT 64
This series consists of files dealing with various aspects of post-war planning in relation to inland transport and ports.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 64
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successor, Co-ordination of Transport Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of files dealing with various aspects of post-war planning in relation to inland transport and ports.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- COT
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Transport, Co-ordination of Transport Branch, 1940-1941
- Ministry of War Transport, Co-ordination of Transport Branch, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1972 Department of the Environment
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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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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In October 1940, at the instigation of the Minister Sir John Reith, a report was prepared by Dr.W.H.Coates of Imperial Chemicals Industry, and Sir Alfred Robinson, ex-Deputy Secretary of the Ministry, outlining the transport problem in Great Britain and proposing the establishment of a National Transport Corporation as a solution to the peace-time problem of road and rail competition.
In 1941 the War Cabinet considered the post-war reconstruction of the national transport system, and in June 1942 a further more detailed report by Dr. Coates, was submitted to the Cabinet, surveying the pre-war transport situation and discussing the possible courses of action for the future and their probable consequences. The Coates and Robinson papers, which include the preliminary draft of a Bill, were a prelude to the Transport Act, 1947
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11113/
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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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