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.
There was a earlier project by Janet Mendelsohn that were taken in 1960’s was shown at The Ikon in 2016, I went to it and knowing the area, it was remarkable less than less two miles away is the leafy suburb of Edgbaston. It only shows the slow social progress in the city
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/11/wickedest-road-in-britain-photographer-janet-mendelsohn-varna-road-birmingham
I’d recommend visiting Back to Backs if you’re interested in this kind of thing
I did when they first opened.