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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: Highway Procedures and Legislation (HPL Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 199
What's it about?
MT 199
These records detail policy on land acquisition and disposal; land compensation; trunk road statutory procedures (including Public Inquiries); public consultation; planning blight; agreement on bridges, tunnels mining etc; highways legislation...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 199
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Title (The name of the record)
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Transport Ministries: Highway Procedures and Legislation (HPL Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1973-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records detail policy on land acquisition and disposal; land compensation; trunk road statutory procedures (including Public Inquiries); public consultation; planning blight; agreement on bridges, tunnels mining etc; highways legislation and preparation and drafting of the Highways Manual.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Within each transfer the records will be arranged in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative arrangement.
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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)
- HPL series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Transport, Compensation and Lands, 1980-1981
- Department of Transport, Highways Programming, Contacts and Lands Division, 1977-1979
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 25 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2005 Department for Transport
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Since the file series ceased to accrue the records have been in the custody of the Department of Transport (1981-1997), The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001), the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002) and the Department for Transport (2002 to date).
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1977-1980
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- These records have been selected as they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).
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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 Highways Procedures and Legislation Division was formed in 1979 as part of the Highways Programming, Contracts and Land Directorate. The following year it was subsumed into the Compensation and Lands Division, taking over responsibility for the Highways Land and Legal work.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16197/
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