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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: Traffic Engineering (TE Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 126
What's it about?
MT 126
This series contains registered files dealing with road signs, traffic signals and road lighting.
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 126
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Traffic Engineering (TE Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1951-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files dealing with road signs, traffic signals and road lighting.
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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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TE 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, Traffic Engineering Division, 1970-1976
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Traffic Engineering Division, 1955-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Traffic Engineering Division, 1959-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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63 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 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
from 1985 to 1997 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)
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Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11175/
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