From 1969 to 1971, photographer Nick Hedges took pictures of life in Liverpool. Nick was hired by housing charity Shelter to travel round England and Scotland documenting the lives of families living in slum and squalor. Is this you or someone you know in these pictures?
Sisters in the interior of their house in Falkner St, 1969
Returning from work across clearance site Liverpool 8 1969
Boy standing in front of his bed Liverpool 8 1970
Family living with gas cut off Liverpool 8 1970 280-22
On board the Liverpool 8 double decker playbus 1969 190-16
At meeting to discuss SNAP plans for improvements 93-32
A Liverpool 8 alleyway encounter 1970 284-3
At the doorway of a multilet Liverpool 1969
Householder looking at SNAP plans for his house Liverpool 8 1969
Going back into class Liverpool 8 EPA primary school 1969
Girls at a youth club in Granby St 1969
Friends on their way home from school Liverpool 8 1969
Family living in one room Liverpool 8 1971
Family in their kitchen, Liverpool 8 1969
Exhausted pupils in the classroom of an EPA primary school Liverpool 8 1969 187-11a
Elderly woman standing amidst slum clearance site Liverpool 8 1969 10-4
Cleaning the pavement outside my house Liverpool 8 1969
Pupil in an EPA primary school Liverpool 8 1969
Playground of an EPA primary school Liverpool 8 1969
On board the Liverpool 8 playbus
Mrs Thomas and her daughter, 1971
Mother and her family living slum housing Liverpool 8 1970
Medical certificate for rehousing, 1971
Liverpudlians walking past an election poster 1969 Liverpool 8
Latchkey children Liverpool 1970
Liverpool 8 terrace frontage 1969
We’ve pages dedicated to each city Nick visited: Glasgow, Liverpool (Volume 1 and Volume 2), Newcastle, London, Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham (Volume 1 and Volume 2), Salford, Leeds, Whitechapel (London) and Bradford.
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