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Newcastle upon Tyne, 1972

Families walking across a slum clearance site

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

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Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leeds, 1970

Crossing wasteland from back-to-back housing towards the railway line

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

G

Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bradford, 1970

Pushing a pram up an unadopted road

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

G

Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Sheffield, 1969

Street scene

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

G

Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Children playing in the wasteland of a Glasgow slum, 1971

 

The second world war had left the country impoverished

and in every city there were large areas of housing

that had already been declared unfit before the outbreak of war

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

'A failure of society': Britain's slum housing crisis – in pictures

In the late 1960s the country’s crumbling flats and tenements

were causing a breakdown in society.

Shelter asked photographer Nick Hedges

to document homes unfit for human habitation

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Tue 2 Feb 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/02/
a-failure-of-society-britains-slum-housing-crisis-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glasgow, 1971

View of tenement backs

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

G

Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liverpool, 1969

At the doorway of a multi-let

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

G

Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liverpool, 1969

A young boy on the corner of a Liverpool 8 street

 

Photograph: Nick Hedges

 

 Gimme Shelter: hard lives in British cities 1969-72

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year.

Shortly after its birth,

photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched

to cities in England and Scotland

to document the lives of families living in squalor.

G

Saturday 6 February 2016    12.27 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terrace of back-to-back houses, Leeds, West Yorkshire, July 1970.

 

Nick Hedges,

courtesy National Media Museum, Bradford.

 

Below the poverty line: slum Britain in the 1960s – in pictures

Photographer Nick Hedges travelled from Birmingham slums to Glasgow tenements

in the 1960s and 70s to document poverty-stricken Britain.

He found families who slept with the lights blazing to keep the rats away,

children sleeping on wet floors and mothers cooking over an open fire

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Wednesday 1 October 2014        07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/oct/01/
below-the-poverty-line-slum-britain-in-the-1960s-in-pictures 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nick Hedges

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/02/
a-failure-of-society-britains-slum-housing-crisis-in-pictures

 

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/07/
homeless-shelter-charity

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/
gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/oct/01/
below-the-poverty-line-slum-britain-in-the-1960s-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/02/
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