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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
Transport Ministries: Structures Approval, Signs and Lighting (SASL Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 186
What's it about?
MT 186
This series contains the registered files of the Bridges Engineering Division. They concern the work of the Division in monitoring measures for strengthening and reconstructing sub-standard bridges. Some files were re-registered into the series...
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 186
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Structures Approval, Signs and Lighting (SASL Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the registered files of the Bridges Engineering Division. They concern the work of the Division in monitoring measures for strengthening and reconstructing sub-standard bridges. Some files were re-registered into the series from the BE file series in MT 118
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
File reference order by each 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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SASL 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, Bridges Engineering Division, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 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 1999 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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These documents were transferred to the Department of the Environment in 1970, 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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File series ran 1980-1984
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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 representing the work of the Division have been selected. Files concerning routine issues (load assessments of particular bridges, bridge surveys etc.) 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 Bridges Engineering Division was responsible for: technical approval of all types of trunk road structures; lighting columns and sign gantries. Additionally, the Division was responsible for the technical approval of local authority road structures that were receiving Transport Policies and Programme grants. These grants were given to local authorities to support Rate Support Grants and the grant amount reflected the scope of the transport policy and works programme of the local authority.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14925/
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