Levy Book-1750 (full view)
Complete view of the Levy Book (1750) containing the Jewish lodging house. Notice that we are not given actual 'street names' in this early picture of Birmingham life; we are simply told 'New Street Quarter'. ...
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. ...
Mother and child window shopping
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Mother and three children
Photograph of mother holding a baby with two other children in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath by Nick Hedges.
Mother and two children in slum kitchen
Photograph of a mother and her two children in a slum kitchen. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Neville Chamberlain, by Basil Byng
Pencil portrait.
News article referring to 'The New Slums'
The Birmingham Gazette article reported complaints made by a resident of Quinton to Birmingham's Licensing Justices regarding the building of a pub serving a new nearby housing estate.
Photograph of the rear of 12-13 Upper Priory Court by James Burgoyne
This is one of a series of photographs which Burgoyne made showing the conditions in slum properties in Birmingham. These were properties which were to be demolished as part of the 1870s Improvement Scheme. ...
Photographs by Bill Brandt
The following photographs by the British photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) were taken for the Bournville Village Trust from 1939-1943.
Exhibition compiled by Dr Nicola Gauld
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust by Bill Brandt
This photograph shows members of the Dawson family who moved from a back-to-back house in Hockley to a maisonette in Harborne. They subsequently moved to a modern house on the Weoley Castle Estate. The ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943 showing a girl on a swing by Bill Brandt
Bournville Village Trust was established by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage his model village at Bournville. It had a longstanding interest in improving housing conditions for the working classes. In ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943, showing a family at the dinner table
This photograph was taken on the Weoley Castle Estate. The shot is clearly posed. Another photograph showing the family in the garden reveals how high the window was from the ground. The child could never ...
Quinton, Harborne and Edgbaston Town Planning Scheme Map
This map illustrates one of Birmingham’s first comprehensive town planning schemes to regulate suburban development in south-west Birmingham. What is remarkable when comparing it to maps from just 20 ...
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 ...
Sleeping Rough
Photograph by Vanley Burke from the collection 'Sundays are Bloody Awful' depicting homeless people in Birmingham.
Street Boys in Greece
This photograph shows 'street boys' in Patras.
Street Children in Italy
This photograph shows 'street loiterers' in Milan.
Street scene
Photograph of women and children in street. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.