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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
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Series
Transport Ministries: Divisional Road Engineers Offices and Successors Files
Catalogue reference: MT 152
What's it about?
MT 152
The series contains files of various Divisional Road Engineers' Offices created following the Trunk Roads Act of 1936. Each Divisional Office had its own series of files and an index to the various series is provided. Only a few files pre-dating...
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 152
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Divisional Road Engineers Offices and Successors Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1930-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains files of various Divisional Road Engineers' Offices created following the Trunk Roads Act of 1936. Each Divisional Office had its own series of files and an index to the various series is provided. Only a few files pre-dating 1960 have survived.
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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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- Department of the Environment, Divisional Road Engineers Offices, 1970-1976
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Divisional Road Engineers Offices, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Divisional Road Engineers Offices, 1936-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Divisional Road Engineers Offices, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Divisional Road Engineers Offices, 1959-1970
- Ministry of War Transport, Divisional Road Engineers Offices, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 431 file(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 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Divisional Engineer had responsibility for the financial control of small trunk road schemes, and for liaison with the Minister of Transport and local authorities.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11201/
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