Housing Charity Shelter hired photographer Nick Hedges to document the lives of slum families living in Glasgow, Birmingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester and other cities of Britain. These photographs revealed the poor life and dreadful housing conditions in Britain’s inner cities.
He found families huddling in a cellar lit by a single bulb, sick mothers, children playing in rags, crumbling walls, children sleeping in a squalid blanket. They were living without basic facilities such as electricity, water, proper sewage, and ventilation system. The images, taken for Homeless charity Shelter, united politicians to address Britain’s slums.
The following photographs show the awful living conditions of slum areas of Manchester. These photographs show the other side of 1970s Manchester.
The look of resignation on some of their faces is heartbreaking.
BuT bOoMeRs HaD eVeRyThInG
They saw it was shit and then they fixed it.
Now they see it’s shit and say “oh we had it worse in my day!” instead of trying to make things better.
I don’t think anybody was saying it was utopia. For most people it was a great run though
Hilarious how many down votes you have got for this comment 😁. The cognitive dissonance of self pitying millennials as they angrily down vote you on their iPhones is brilliant.
Number 8 the more things change the more they stay the same
Looks like Geert Wilders
I walked down my mums terraced back street the other day for the first time in years. Kinda starting to look like some of those pictures again.
We are going back to the single room lets with HMOs too. Council should really not be approving those.
Didn’t they replace them with the Crescents?
Yeah they were built as a replacement.
Yes they did. Surely it would have been cheaper to just gut and fix the terraced streets.
I always find it a shame that while the city did do a good thing in demolishing these slums we replaced them with shitty tower blocks and not very dense estates.
And many of the new estates still suffer from the knock-on effects even now, e.g. Hattersley.
Indeed, we really should be working to replace these estates now.