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: Centralised Licensing Administration (CLA Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 182
What's it about?
MT 182
This series contains registered files of the Centralised Licensing and Administration Division. The records concern policy on transfer of functions from local to central government.
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 182
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Centralised Licensing Administration (CLA Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1969-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Centralised Licensing and Administration Division. The records concern policy on transfer of functions from local to central government.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former reference order by transfer
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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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CLA 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)
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- Department of the Environment, Centralised Licensing Administration Division, 1970-1972
- Ministry of Transport, Centralised Licensing Administration Division, 1969-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 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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From 2000 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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Transferred to the Department of Transport in 1976 and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1969-1972
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Policy files retained. Files containing reference documents regarding the reorganisation of local government and formulation of statutory instruments have not been selected for preservation.
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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 Centralised Licensing and Administration Division was established in 1969 and was set up to administer the transfer of road vehicle registration and licensing from local to central government. It ceased to exist in 1972 when its functions were transferred to the newly established Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre (DVLC).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11231/
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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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