Powerful Photos Of Awful Liverpool Housing By Nick Hedges 1969-71

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.

Here: Young lad on the corner of a Liverpool street, 1969

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Woman sticking anti burglar glass onto back wall of house Liverpool 1971

OAP in the kitchen of his house Liverpool 1969

Mrs Ditchfield and her daughter living in cellar of multi let house, 1969

Mr Owen and his family living in a semi derelict house, 1969

Mother and daughter Liverpool 1969

Mother and daughter in their cellar flat Liverpool 1969

Mother and children living in slum housing Liverpool 1970

Mother and 3 children in multi let house, 1970

Looking at SNAP plans for house conversion, 1969

Liverpool sisters slum bathroom Toxteth 1969

Last block standing in Faulkner St Liverpool 1969

Kitchen on stairs, Liverpool 1969

Kitchen in a Liverpool multilet 1969

Ken Dodd with the crowd opening a SNAP showhouse Liverpool 1969

Ken Dodd opening a SNAP showhouse Liverpool 1969

Interior of Liverpool youth club 1969

Father and daughter on the front step of their house Liverpool 1969

Family living without running water Liverpool 1971

Family living in one room Liverpool 1970

Exterior of condemned property Liverpool, 1969

Children in playground of Educational Priority Area school, 1969

Bedroom of a grossly overcrowded house in Liverpool 1971

Baby propped in window of Liverpool house 1969

At the opening of a SNAP showhouse Liverpool 1969

At the entrance to a Liverpool youth club 1969

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A corner conversation Liverpool 1969

Landlady’s notices multi let Liverpool 1969

Young mothers in a hostel for unmarried mothers, 1969

The window of a shop in Granby St

Terminally ill woman living in single room of a multi let house, 1969

Sisters in the interior of their house in Falkner St, 1969

Returning from work across clearance site Liverpool 1969

Boy standing in front of his bed Liverpool 1970

Family living with gas cut off Liverpool 1970

On board the Liverpool double decker playbus 1969

At meeting to discuss SNAP plans for improvements

A Liverpool alleyway encounter 1970

At the doorway of a multilet Liverpool 1969

Householder looking at SNAP plans for his house Liverpool 1969

Going back into class Liverpool EPA primary school 1969

Girls at a youth club in Granby St 1969

Friends on their way home from school Liverpool 1969

Family living in one room Liverpool 1971

Family in their kitchen, Liverpool 1969

Exhausted pupils in the classroom of an EPA primary school Liverpool 1969

Elderly woman standing amidst slum clearance site Liverpool 1969

Cleaning the pavement outside my house Liverpool 1969

Pupil in an EPA primary school Liverpool 1969

Playground of an EPA primary school Liverpool 1969

On board the Liverpool playbus

Mrs Thomas and her daughter, 1971

Mother and her family living slum housing Liverpool 1970

Medical certificate for rehousing, 1971

Liverpudlians walking past an election poster 1969 Liverpool

Latchkey children Liverpool 1970

Liverpool terrace frontage 1969