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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 for Transport and Predecessors: The Motorists Forum (MTR): Registered...
Catalogue reference: AT 249
What's it about?
AT 249
This series contains meeting papers of the Motorists Forum and its subordinate sub-groups.
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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AT 249
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department for Transport and Predecessors: The Motorists Forum (MTR): Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1999-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains meeting papers of the Motorists Forum and its subordinate sub-groups.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Former reference order within accessions
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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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MTR 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)
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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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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15 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 2025 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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 Motorists Forum was set up in 1999 by the Vice Chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport, Sir Trevor Chinn, and was launched in January 2000. The forum was the primary regular channel through which road users and other key stakeholders from the roads and motoring sector contributed to government thinking on priorities for and performance of roads. The forum focused on both topics of current interest and of longer term strategic direction for road and motoring policies. Its stated objective was to make motoring cleaner, smarter and safer. The aim of the forum was to ensure that the views of the responsible motorist were taken properly into account in the development of transport policy, and it worked in close co-operation with the Commission for Integrated Transport.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19083610/
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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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