Focus on
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: Regional Development (RDD Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 155
What's it about?
MT 155
This series consists of registered files of the Regional Development Division. They cover important policy aspects of regional development and demonstrate the Division's co-ordinating role in the regional transport area. Includes files on...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 155
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Regional Development (RDD Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1957-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Regional Development Division. They cover important policy aspects of regional development and demonstrate the Division's co-ordinating role in the regional transport area. Includes files on Morecambe Bay Barrage Scheme.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphanumerically by former reference.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from the RDD series were re-registered into the GD series:
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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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RDD file 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)
- Ministry of Transport, Regional Development Division, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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18 file(s)
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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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1998-2005 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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- Topics
- Transport management
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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After 1970 custody of the records has been the preserve of unknown bodies within the Department of Transport, from 1970 to 1997 and the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions from 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1964-1970
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The selection contains most of the files that have survived, with the exception of those containing only copies of papers originating from outside the division which have been destroyed.
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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 Regional Development Division (RDD) was established in 1964 as part of the Inter-Urban Policy, Regional Development and International Group, and in 1968 took over the economic development functions of the Transport Policy General Division. The RDD was responsible for co-ordinating action on the transport aspects of the work of the Government's regional development machinery, and was also concerned with the co-ordination of work with industry, and for the Scottish and Welsh White Papers.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11204/
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