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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: Bill Papers
Catalogue reference: MT 125
What's it about?
MT 125
This series consists of bound volumes of papers concerned with the passage through Parliament of bills introduced by the Ministry of Transport and successors from its inception in 1919, and bills sponsored by other ministries in which the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 125
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Bill Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1906-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of bound volumes of papers concerned with the passage through Parliament of bills introduced by the Ministry of Transport and successors from its inception in 1919, and bills sponsored by other ministries in which the Ministry of Transport was interested.
The volumes contain firm legislative proposals, consultations with other government departments and interested bodies, draft bills, notes on clauses, amendments, verbatim reports of committee hearings and parliamentary reports on inland transport matters.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The bills are arranged in chronological order
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Board of Trade, 1786-1970
- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
- Ministry of Transport, 1919-1941
- Ministry of Transport, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, 1959-1970
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953-1959
- Ministry of War Transport, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 913 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1985 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11174/
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The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster
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