Father and two children
Photograph of a father with his two children in a slum interior. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.
Girl in slum interior
Photograph of a little girl in a white dress in a derelict house. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Girl on swing
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Girl sweeping yard
Photograph of a girl sweeping a back yard, seen from above. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
Group of children crossing the road
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
'Gypsies near Bromford Forge', by Joseph Barber
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted. The first evidence we have of a travelling family in Birmingham comes ...
'Gypsy Encampment' in Turkey
This photograph shows children on an encampment near Misopoli.
'Gypsy Encampment', Cookley
This photograph shows children on a traveller site on Whittington Lane, Cookley.
Highlighting Housing Need
The Sparkbrook newsletter became an important space for local residents to express their thoughts about living in Sparkbrook. This edition from 1965 includes an article by a 'Sparkbrook Resident' which ...
Homes for Birmingham: the Communist Party Plan
At the end of the Second World War public housing had become an increasingly contentious political issue. Both mainstream and fringe parties printed their own solutions for public circulation. Parties ...
Homes for Sparkbrook
This photograph shows volunteers at work decorating a Sparkbrook property.
Improving the condition of properties had the potential to better the physical and mental well-being of Sparkbrook's residents. ...
Houses on Ravenhurst Road
This photograph provides visual evidence of the designs of houses on the Moor Pool Estate at Harborne. John Nettlefold was invited to become Chairman of Harborne Tenants Limited in 1907. Its most unique ...
India
'House at Hurdah. Central Provinces.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Junction of Park Hill Road and Moor Pool Avenue
Black and white photographic print showing land developed by Harborne Tenants Limited to build the new Moor Pool Estate.
Letter from G.H. Browne to Neville Chambelain, MP
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was elected as Conservative-Unionist Member of Parliament for the Birmingham constituency of Ladywood in 1918. He played a leading role in directing national housing policy ...
Letter from Neville Chamberlain to Ida and Hilda [Chamberlain]
As Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain was instrumental in legislating for affordable housing in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Housing subsidies were later extended to municipal housing schemes, ...