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
Department of Transport and Successors: Shipping Policy, General Lighthouse Authorities...
Catalogue reference: LM 10
What's it about?
LM 10
Files in this series relate to the management of the General Lighthouse Fund (including accounts, receipts, payments, ledgers and investments), relations with the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) and policy on light dues.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LM 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport and Successors: Shipping Policy, General Lighthouse Authorities and Fund; Registered Files (GLAF Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1991-2008
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files in this series relate to the management of the General Lighthouse Fund (including accounts, receipts, payments, ledgers and investments), relations with the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) and policy on light dues.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files on lighthouse matters were registered in the prefix MNA (BT 243) prior to the creation of the GLAF prefix: BT 243
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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)
- GLAF 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 for Transport, 2002-2002
- Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002-2006
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 23 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2018 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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- 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)
- Department of Transport 1991-1997, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006 and Department for Transport since 2006
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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)
- Files showing policy development on the management of the fund and the sponsorship of the authorities have been recommended 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 GLAF prefix was set up to manage lighthouse work which had previously been filed under the MNA prefix.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16616817/
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Department of Transport and Successors: Shipping Policy, General Lighthouse Authorities and Fund; Registered Files (GLAF Series)
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Focus on
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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