Editing Bethnal Green tube station (section)

===Memorials===
[[File:Bethnal Green stn memorial plaque.JPG|thumb|right|Plaque to the 1943 disaster]]

A plaque commemorating the 1943 disaster was erected on the station's south-eastern staircase, on which the deaths occurred, for the fiftieth anniversary in 1993. It bears the coat of arms of the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]], and records the event as the "worst civilian disaster of the Second World War".<ref>{{cite web |title=Plaque: Bethnal Green WW2 disaster – plaque |work=London Remembers |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/bethnal-green-ww2-disaster-plaque |access-date=3 March 2018 }}</ref>

The "Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust" was established in 2007 to create a more prominent public memorial to those who died in the disaster. The memorial was designed by local architects Harry Patticas and Jens Borstlemann of Arboreal Architecture.<ref name="memorial">{{cite web |url=http://www.stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org/gpage12.html |title=The Appeal |work=Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307010006/http://www.stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org/gpage12.html |archive-date=7 March 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=18 February 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>{{sfn|Dettman|2010|pp=vii–viii}} It is located in a corner of Bethnal Green Garden, immediately outside the tube station, and was unveiled on 16 December 2017, during the 75th year after the event. It takes the form of an open inverted stairway of 18 steps made of teak overhanging a concrete plinth, and is a full-sized replica of the stairway where the disaster occurred. The names of the dead are carved on the exterior and the top covering has 173 small holes allowing light through representing the dead.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42384399 |title=Bethnal Green WW2 Tube disaster memorial unveiled |date=20 December 2017 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 December 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/16/74-years-bethnal-green-tube-disaster-aberfan-hillsborough-grenfell |title=74 years since the Bethnal Green tube disaster, lessons still need to be learned |last=Ali |first=Rushanara |date=16 December 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=20 December 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/70373|title=Bethnal Green Underground Station Civilians (Stairway to Heaven)|work=War Memorials Register|publisher=Imperial War Museums|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>