From 1969 to 1972, photographer Nick Hedges took pictures of life in the old Glasgow tenement blocks. 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?
At the kitchen sink in a tenement flat Glasgow 1970
View from kitchen window of Maryhill tenements.1970
Tenement courtyard Maryhill 1971
Mother living with her children in an overcrowded single end tenement flat Glasgow 1971
Mother and sleeping child, single end tenement flat, Glasgow Maryhill 1971
Mother and her baby on the staircase of her condemned Gorbals tenement 1970
Married couple in their tenement flat Maryhill 1971
Father and children Gorbals tenement 1970
Couple in a Leith tenement flat, Edinburgh 1972
Boys setting fire to waste bins Gorbals 1970
Baby sleeping by the drains in a tenement courtyard Glasgow Maryhill 1971
View of tenement backs Glasgow 1971
School girl in a Glasgow tenement courtyard 1971
Mother takes her baby inside her condemned tenement block Gorbals 1970
Mother and child living in a damp and semi derelict tenement, Glasgow 1971
Father and child in a Maryhill tenement 1971
Children playing in an abandoned tenement Maryhill 1971
Children playing in a Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970
Children playing in a derelict tenement, Glasgow
Child waiting for his parents to come home Glasgow tenement 1971
Child crosses a Glasgow tenement courtyard 197
Boys delivering newspapers Maryhill tenement back 1971
Unemployed colliery worker, Glasgow tenement 1971
Tenement backyard, Glasgow 1971
Teenage girls waiting in backyard of tenement block Maryhill 1971
Sisters sharing a chair in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970
Play in a derelict Glasgow tenement 1971
Mother and baby in Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970
Glasgow tenement backs 1970
Father and babe in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970
Family living in an overcrowded tenement flat Glasgow 1971
Children playing in a Glasgow tenement courtyard 1971
Children at play in a Maryhill tenement 1971
Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971
Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971
Child in damp semi derelict tenement flat Glasgow 1970
Boy negotiating flooded entry in tenement block Maryhill 1971
See more photos of British life in poor housing: Glasgow, Liverpool (Volume 1 and Volume 2), Newcastle, London, Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham (Volume 1 and Volume 2), Salford, Leeds, Whitechapel (London) and Bradford.
Via: Shelter
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