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.
Jesus that’s grim. Seems unimaginable, yet it was within may people’s lifetime.
Where’s the rose tibted glasses crew at?
Happily reminiscing about the good old days that made them the idiot they are today.
Yet most are in utter denial of the sheer poverty of England at the time.