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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
Department of Transport and Successors: Sir Patrick Brown's Office; Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: LM 12
What's it about?
LM 12
This series comprises the meeting papers of the Departmental Management Board.
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 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport and Successors: Sir Patrick Brown's Office; Registered Files (SPBO Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1991-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises the meeting papers of the Departmental Management Board.
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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)
- SPBO 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)
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 21 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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In 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 1992-1996, Department of 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 2006 onwards.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The complete set of registered files of Sir Patrick Brown's Office have been recommended for retention as they cover the higher direction of the Department.
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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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Sir Patrick Brown was Permanent Secretary at the Department of Transport from 1991 to 1997. Between 1992 and 1995 he exercised management oversight of the Department through a Departmental Management Board comprised of the Deputy Secretaries.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16616818/
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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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