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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.
Series
Parliamentary: Supplementary Acts
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1064
What's it about?
RAIL 1064
This series comprises a large collection of loose acts, and several collections used by various companies. The latter may reflect the acts of the company itself, or a collection of general acts used for reference or both.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1064
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Title (The name of the record)
- Parliamentary: Supplementary Acts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1722-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises a large collection of loose acts, and several collections used by various companies. The latter may reflect the acts of the company itself, or a collection of general acts used for reference or both.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Acts are arranged by year
Although many of these acts doubtless duplicate those in other Act series, Acts not found in other series will often be found in this one.
These records were not classified prior to the Public Record Office taking over custody of BTHR, and the former reference AP 4 is a purely notional one used in projecting the new RAIL classification.
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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)
- AP 4
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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)
- 350 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13223/
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Parliamentary: Supplementary Acts
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The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster
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