Man and children in attic flat, Liverpool 8 by Nick Hedges
This photograph shows a father and his three children in their one room attic flat. Liverpool 8 was one of the worst slums in the UK and many people were forced to live in squalid rooms in multi-let properties. ...
Roof
Roof, published by Shelter, was launched in 1975- "to provide a radical and informed forum for discussion of Britain's continuing-and worsening- housing crisis." (Roof Oct 1975 p.1) Roof's aim was to ...
The Effect of Flat Dwelling on Children
Much of the new accommodation built after 1945 for the purposes of re-housing comprised increasingly taller, high-density tower blocks, many built in the five Redevelopment Areas. They also rose across ...
Two boys on swings in playground by Nick Hedges
Two girls, Notting Hill, London by Nick Hedges
Hedges tried to show a positive, as well as negative, side of homelessness. These girls are photographed in their one room flat. They are smiling and the room is homely and inviting. However, their home ...
When We Build Again (1943)
Section from the film 'When We Build Again', commissioned by the Cadburys firm and narrated by Dylan Thomas, discussing the various types of housing the working-class servicemen were returning to after ...