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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.
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Transport Ministries: Regional Road Safety Units (RSU Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 153
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MT 153
This series consists of a selection of registered files from the Midland, Southern, Northern and Western Units, representative of a cross section of the country.Additionally, files relating to the origins and early organisation of the units have...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 153
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Regional Road Safety Units (RSU Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a selection of registered files from the Midland, Southern, Northern and Western Units, representative of a cross section of the country.
Additionally, files relating to the origins and early organisation of the units have been included.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 35 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files have been selected as representative of the type of work carried out by Road Safety Units, of experimental schemes, pilot studies and innovative ideas, and of major surveys.
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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 Road Safety Units were set up in 1963. Their functions were: to study road accidents, to consider remedial techniques, and in conjunction with local authorities, to promote proposals for dealing with accidents.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11202/
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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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