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| Picture No | 11657452 |
| Date | 1943 |
| Description | Bethnal Green Tube disaster, 1943 |
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The wall (back) against which the people were crushed: a workman is preparing for the erection of new crush barriers. The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster took place on the evening of Wednesday March 3, 1943. 1731 people died in a terrifying crush as panic spread through the crowds of people trying to enter the station's bomb shelter in the East End of London.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Illustrated London News, 13 March 1943, page 288 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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