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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
Transport Ministries: Bridges Engineering (BE Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 118
What's it about?
MT 118
This series consists of selected files of the BE registered file series of the Ministry of Transport's Bridges Engineering Division, its predecessors and successor, relating to bridge structure, maintenance, design standards, materials and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 118
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Bridges Engineering (BE Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1928-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of selected files of the BE registered file series of the Ministry of Transport's Bridges Engineering Division, its predecessors and successor, relating to bridge structure, maintenance, design standards, materials and abnormal indivisible loads.
Some files in the series were re-registered from the HE file series (otherwise in MT 95).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For files re-registered into the SASL series see
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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)
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BE Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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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)
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- Department of the Environment, Bridges Engineering Division, 1970-1976
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Engineering Division, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Engineering, Bridges Branch, 1956-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Bridges Engineering Division, 1964-1970
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, 1940-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering, Bridges Branch, 1959-1964
- Ministry of War Transport, Highways Engineering Division, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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548 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2006 Department for Transport
from 1984 Department of Transport
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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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A bridges section has existed under various titles since the formation of the Ministry of Transport in 1919. A Bridges Branch was formed in 1956 as a result of the reorganisation of the Highways Engineering Division and in 1964, following a further reorganisation, the Bridges Engineering Division was created in its own right.
The Division was responsible for giving advice and formulating standards of design and specifications for materials for both the construction and maintenance of bridges. It examined bridge proposals, consulted with the Royal Fine Arts Commission and made recommendations for the appointment of, and agreements with, consulting engineers.
It also assessed the strengths of bridges and gave advice on the routing of abnormal loads, and Bridges Engineering Technical Approvals Division, which became responsible for the technical approval of structures on principal roads and non-delegated motorways and trunk roads and the authorised routing of abnormal loads, and Bridges Engineering Design Standards Division which, as its title implies, was responsible for design standards and specifications for all highway structures and for computer aid to design.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11167/
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