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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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Catalogue reference: ZSPC
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Publications and other materials formerly held by the British Transport Historical Records Office library. The only remaining series is the W E Hayward Collection in ZSPC 11. The material in this department is non record material originally held...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ZSPC
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Title (The name of the record)
- Publications and other materials formerly held by the British Transport Historical Records Office library
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Date (When the record was created)
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1831-1977
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Description (What the record is about)
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Publications and other materials formerly held by the British Transport Historical Records Office library. The only remaining series is the W E Hayward Collection in ZSPC 11.
The material in this department is non record material originally held in the Library.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For archival material under former BTHR SPC references see RAIL 1147-1153 and RAIL 1155-1157
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Non record material
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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)
- British Railways Board, British Transport Historical Records Office, 1963-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11 series
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 1972 British Railways Board, British Transport Historical Records Office
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C269/
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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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