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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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Committee of Inquiry into Major Ports of Great Britain: Unregistered Records
Catalogue reference: MT 161
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MT 161
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- MT 161
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- Committee of Inquiry into Major Ports of Great Britain: Unregistered Records
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Committee of Inquiry into Major Ports of Great Britain, 1961-1962
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- Transport management
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11210/
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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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