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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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Various Transport Undertakings: Correspondence and papers
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1008
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RAIL 1008
Wide range of material concerning leading personalities in the affairs of early transport. Includes papers of Sir Daniel Gooch, Isambard K Brunel, John and Sir John Rennie, George and Robert Stephenson.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1008
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Title (The name of the record)
- Various Transport Undertakings: Correspondence and papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1794-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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Wide range of material concerning leading personalities in the affairs of early transport.
Includes papers of Sir Daniel Gooch, Isambard K Brunel, John and Sir John Rennie, George and Robert Stephenson.
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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)
- HL
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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)
- 130 file(s)
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- Topics
- Transport management
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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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It is not known at what point this material became dissociated from the other records of the various companies concerned. Some of it however is more of a private than company nature, and probably came into what became the British Transport Commission collection in the form of donations
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13184/
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Various Transport Undertakings: Correspondence and papers
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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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