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](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/At-the-kitchen-sink-in-a-tenement-flat-Glasgow-1970--1280x846.jpg)
At the kitchen sink in a tenement flat Glasgow 1970
View from kitchen window of Maryhill tenements.1970
![Tenement courtyard Maryhill 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tenement-courtyard-Maryhill-1971-1280x839.jpg)
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](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mother-and-sleeping-child-single-end-tenement-flat-Glasgow-Maryhill-1971-676x1024.jpg)
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](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Married-couple-in-their-tenement-flat-Maryhill-1971-1280x842.jpg)
Married couple in their tenement flat Maryhill 1971
Father and children Gorbals tenement 1970
![Couple in a Leith tenement flat Edinburgh 1972](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Couple-in-a-Leith-tenement-flat-Edinburgh-1972-433-18-1280x837.jpg)
Couple in a Leith tenement flat, Edinburgh 1972
![Boys setting fire to waste bins Gorbals 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Boys-setting-fire-to-waste-bins-Gorbals-1970-285-27-671x1024.jpg)
Boys setting fire to waste bins Gorbals 1970
![Baby sleeping by the drains in a tenement courtyard Glasgow Maryhill 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Baby-sleeping-by-the-drains-in-a-tenement-courtyard-Glasgow-Maryhill-1971-384-32a-1280x836.jpg)
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](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/School-girl-in-a-Glasgow-tenement-courtyard-1971-635x1024.jpg)
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](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mother-and-child-living-in-a-damp-and-semi-derelict-tenement-Glasgow-1971--1280x842.jpg)
Mother and child living in a damp and semi derelict tenement, Glasgow 1971
![Father and child in a Maryhill tenement 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Father-and-child-in-a-Maryhill-tenement-1971-381-6-679x1024.jpg)
Father and child in a Maryhill tenement 1971
![Children playing in an abandoned tenement Maryhill 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/children-playing-in-an-abandoned-tenement-Maryhill-1971-379-15a--1280x835.jpg)
Children playing in an abandoned tenement Maryhill 1971
![Children playing in a Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Children-playing-in-a-Gorbals-tenement-courtyard-1970-237-25-1280x838.jpg)
Children playing in a Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970
![Children playing in a derelict tenement, Glasgow](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/children-playing-in-a-derelict-tenement-Glasgow--1280x834.jpg)
Children playing in a derelict tenement, Glasgow
![Child waiting for his parents to come home Glasgow tenement 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Child-waiting-for-his-parents-to-come-home-Glasgow-tenement-1971-382-14a-675x1024.jpg)
Child waiting for his parents to come home Glasgow tenement 1971
![Child crosses a Glasgow tenement courtyard 197](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Child-crosses-a-Glasgow-tenement-courtyard-1971--1280x836.jpg)
Child crosses a Glasgow tenement courtyard 197
![Boys delivering newspapers Maryhill tenement back 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Boys-delivering-newspapers-Maryhill-tenement-back-1971-386-9a-677x1024.jpg)
Boys delivering newspapers Maryhill tenement back 1971
![Unemployed colliery worker, Glasgow tenement 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Unemployed-colliery-worker-Glasgow-tenement-1971-675x1024.jpg)
Unemployed colliery worker, Glasgow tenement 1971
![Tenement backyard, Glasgow 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Tenement-backyard-Glasgow-1971-382-25a-692x1024.jpg)
Tenement backyard, Glasgow 1971
![Teenage girls waiting in backyard of tenement block Maryhill 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Teenage-girls-waiting-in-backyard-of-tenement-block-Maryhill-1971-386-2a--679x1024.jpg)
Teenage girls waiting in backyard of tenement block Maryhill 1971
![Sisters sharing a chair in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sisters-sharing-a-chair-in-a-Gorbals-slum-tenement-1970-1280x839.jpg)
Sisters sharing a chair in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970
![Play in a derelict Glasgow tenement 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Play-in-a-derelict-Glasgow-tenement-1971-669x1024.jpg)
Play in a derelict Glasgow tenement 1971
![Mother and baby in Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mother-and-baby-in-Gorbals-tenemnt-courtyard-1970-1280x833.jpg)
Mother and baby in Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970
![Glasgow tenement backs 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Glasgow-tenement-backs-1970-1280x837.jpg)
Glasgow tenement backs 1970
![Father and babe in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Father-and-babe-in-a-Gorbals-slum-tenement-1970-662x1024.jpg)
Father and babe in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970
![Family living in an overcrowded tenement flat Glasgow 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Family-living-in-an-overcrowded-tenement-flat-Glasgow-1971-378-4a-1280x842.jpg)
Family living in an overcrowded tenement flat Glasgow 1971
![Children playing in a Glasgow tenement courtyard 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Children-playing-in-a-Glasgow-tenement-courtyard-1971387-20a-692x1024.jpg)
Children playing in a Glasgow tenement courtyard 1971
![Children at play in a Maryhill tenement 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Children-at-play-in-a-Maryhill-tenemnt-1971-671x1024.jpg)
Children at play in a Maryhill tenement 1971
![Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/child-playing-in-tenement-courtyard-Maryhill-Glasgow-1971-1280x842.jpg)
Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971
![Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Child-on-a-tenemnt-staircase-Glasgow-1971-666x1024.jpg)
Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971
![Child in damp semi derelict tenement flat Glasgow 1970](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/child-in-damp-semi-derelict-tenement-flat-Glasgow-1970-1280x835.jpg)
Child in damp semi derelict tenement flat Glasgow 1970
![Boy negotiating flooded entry in tenement block Maryhill 1971](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Boy-negotiating-flooded-entry-in-tenemnt-block-Maryhill-1971--670x1024.jpg)
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