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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.
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Department of Transport and Successors: Road Haulage Division: Registered Files (RH...
Catalogue reference: LM 23
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LM 23
This series contains records relating to departmental sponsorship of the Road Haulage industry and deal with policy on freight and lorries, including international and environmental aspects, as well as advice on driver, vehicle and operator...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LM 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport and Successors: Road Haulage Division: Registered Files (RH Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1995-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to departmental sponsorship of the Road Haulage industry and deal with policy on freight and lorries, including international and environmental aspects, as well as advice on driver, vehicle and operator enforcement issues.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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In numerical file order within transfers
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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)
- RH
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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 the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Road Haulage Division, 1997-2001
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
- Department of Transport, Road Haulage Division, 1996-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 22 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 2023 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)
- 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 Freight and Road Haulage Division was set up in 1994 with responsibility for general policy on freight and lorries, including: their effect on the environment; container dimensions and international road haulage agreements; driver's hours and tachographs; and vehicle taxation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19539346/
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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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