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
Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Navigational Services Group
Catalogue reference: BT 249
What's it about?
BT 249
Files of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Aviation dealing with air navigation and air traffic control.Also represented in this series are files of the Aeronautical Information...
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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BT 249
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Navigational Services Group
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Date (When the record was created)
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1944-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Aviation dealing with air navigation and air traffic control.
Also represented in this series are files of the Aeronautical Information Service and the Air Traffic Control Experimental Unit for which the Navigational Services Group was responsible, and which used the AIS and EU file series respectively.
The Civil Aviation Aerodromes Technical Directorate used the AAT file series, the Civil Aviation Control and Navigation Directorate the ACN, ACNA and ACNB series, the Aviation Control and Navigational Development and Planning Directorate the ACNDP series, and the Aviation Control and Navigation Operations Directorate the ACNO series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files on the Aeronautical Information Service are in AVIA 75
For records of the Air Traffic Control Experiment Unit, later Air Traffic Control Evaluation Unit see DR 14
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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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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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- Ministry of Aviation, Aviation Navigational Services Division, 1959-1967
- Ministry of Civil Aviation, Navigational Services Group, 1945-1953
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Civil Aviation Department, Navigational Services Group, 1953-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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131 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Navigational Services Group was formed to take responsibility for the operational standards of air traffic control systems and services, the operational standards of aerodromes and subjects allied to navigational safety such as maps and charts, meteorological information, telecommunications, aerodrome approach lighting etc. The Group comprised two directorates: Civil Aviation Control and Navigation Directorate and the Civil Aviation Aerodromes Technical Directorate.
This structure survived under the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, but upon the formation of the Ministry of Aviation these functions were split between the Aviation Control and Navigation Operations Directorate and the Aviation Control and Navigational Development and Planning Directorate.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3286/
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Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Navigational Services Group
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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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