Children asleep, Hackney, London by Nick Hedges
One of the main problems that homeless families faced was overcrowding. Whole families were often forced to live in one room that functioned as the living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Hedges did ...
Children by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children feeding a swan
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children from Port Elizabeth
This photograph shows children with a teacher in Port Elizabeth, Africa.
Children in school classroom
Photograph of a white boy and a black girl in a classroom interior. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Children on a see-saw
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Children on climbing frame
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children on swings
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding, 1939
Children playing in street by Nick Hedges
Children’s play was often determined by gender, both at home and in the street. Here the boy plays with a wheel barrow whilst the girls play with dolls and prams.
Children sitting by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Chinnbrook Community Centre
Representative of a community centre movement which developed in the inter-war period, this post-war example served the Yardley Wood and Billesley estates. Such centres offered recreational and educational ...
Councillor J.S. Nettlefold, J.P.
John Sutton Nettlefold became a key figure in the history of public housing in Birmingham, signalling the growing emergence of local government in the town planning process. Born in London, he later moved ...
Drawing of a Middlemore Girl
As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine:
‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman who has solved one of the difficult social problems of modern ...
Eight children in slum bedroom
Group photograph of eight children in a slum bedroom. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.
Family group
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Family in bedsit interior
Photograph of a woman and man with their two children in a bedsit interior. Photograph taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Family sitting at the table
Family sitting at the table
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.