These heartbreaking photographs from the 1970s document the everyday life of families living in the slum areas of Birmingham without basic facilities such as power and water. Some families lived in one room without a room surrounded by vermin. Demolished buildings, poor sewerage systems, litter doorways, trash everywhere; these photographs depict poverty that is hard comprehended in modern Birmingham.
Nick Hedges traveled the country in the late-1960s and 70s for the housing charity Shelter, taking photographs of families living in run-down homes, that shocked a nation into action.
Hard to think this was in my lifetime. Strange people seem to think not having Sky and a mobile phone is poverty.
Very interesting, good post.
hard to believe we still allow this to happen
Even though people were living in squalor, poverty, and adversity in these times, they continued to strive for something better. They showed true grit. They didn’t have much but had each other and that’s all that mattered.
Ironically, even after the slums were cleared, the same areas still face the same (if not more complex) problems from crime and overcrowding to poor housing. But it can only get better.
This is truly heartbreaking
hardly any different now.