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?
Young lad on the corner of a Liverpool 8 street, 1969
Woman sticking anti burglar glass onto back wall of house Liverpool 8 1971
OAP in the kitchen of his house Liverpool 8 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 8 1969
Mother and daughter in their cellar flat Liverpool 8 1969
Mother and children living in slum housing Liverpool 8 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 8 1969
Kitchen in a Liverpool multilet 1969
Ken Dodd with the crowd opening a SNAP showhouse Liverpool 8 1969
Ken Dodd opening a SNAP showhouse Liverpool 8 1969
Interior of Liverpool 8 youth club 1969
Father and daughter on the front step of their house Liverpool 8 1969
Family living without running water Liverpool 8 1971
Family living in one room Liverpool 8 1970
Exterior of condemned property Liverpool 8, 1969
Children in playground of Educational Priority Area school, 1969
Bedroom of a grossly overcrowded house in Liverpool 8 1971
Baby propped in window of Liverpool 8 house 1969
At the opening of a SNAP showhouse Liverpool 8 1969
At the entrance to a Liverpool 8 youth club 1969
Liverpool 8
A corner conversation Liverpool 8 1969
Landlady’s notices multi let Liverpool 8 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
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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