The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster of 1943, in which 173 people were crushed to death, was the UK's largest single loss of civilian life during World War II. Dr Joan Martin MBE had been qualified for ...

Bethnal Green WW2 Tube disaster memorial unveiled. 17 December 2017. ... 84 women and 62 children were killed when 300 people were caught in a crush in the east London Tube entrance on 3 March 1943.

On a rainy evening of March 3, 1943, 173 people were killed in a crush on the stairs at London’s Bethnal Green Underground station while sheltering from what they thought was a German bombing ...

My mother lived in Bethnal Green, East London, throughout the war. Of all the horrific and humerous stories that she tells, the most touching is the morning after the Tube station disaster. Mother ...

IT was one of the most shocking home front incidents in wartime Britain, which cost the lives of 173 men, women and children.o ...

Soon, a permanent memorial will be unveiled at Bethnal Green Gardens, to remember the 173 East Enders who lost their lives on that terrible night. The Stairway to Heaven Memorial has kept the ...

Victims of the Bethnal Green Tube disaster in London have been remembered at a special service marking its 65th anniversary. Survivor Alf Morris spoke to the BBC about his memories of the deadly crush ...

A small group of relatives gathered at a windswept Manor Park Cemetery to remember 88 people killed at Bethnal Green Tube station during the Second… ...