30 sensational pics of poverty and slums of Great Britain that have stirred the world!

In the 60s of the 20th century, British photographer Nick Hedges spent three years traveling around England and Scotland and documenting the lives of families living in terrible, catastrophic poverty. For the first time, these pictures were presented to the world at an exhibition entitled “Make life worth living,” and produced the effect of an exploding bomb. To believe that millions of Englishmen, citizens of one of the most developed and powerful countries in the world, lived in such terrible, inhuman conditions only some 40 years ago, is very difficult. Well, it seems simply impossible to look at some of these pictures without a shudder!

Sheffield, 1969. Street scene.

Sheffield, May 1969. Mrs. Thandy hugs the youngest of her five children. The family lived in a decaying house owned by a steel mill. She had no gas, no electricity, no hot water, no bath. She cooked, making a fire in the living room.

Sheffield, 1969. Street scene.

Glasgow, 1970. Sisters share a chair in multi-unit slums.

Glasgow, 1971. View of apartment buildings inside courtyards.

Glasgow, 1970. A mother takes her child to an apartment located in an apartment block.

Glasgow, 1970. A child in a damp apartment in a semi-abandoned apartment building.

Bradford, 1969. A boy stands in the rain on Forster Street.

Bradford, 1969. Mother and daughter peep out of their slums.

Bradford, 1970. Crowded apartment in a dilapidated house.

Bradford, 1970. Pushing a stroller along a terrible road.

Liverpool, 1969. Mother and daughter in their apartment, located in the basement.

Liverpool, 1969. Basement kitchen in an apartment building.

Liverpool, 1969. A boy on the corner of Liverpool Street.

Liverpool, July 1971. Mrs. Chichoky with her daughter. "Here was the Minister of Housing, he said that this place is unsuitable for human life. And I'm still here."

Liverpool, 1969. Doors in the house.

Birmingham, January 1969. Mr. and Mrs. Milne and their four children lived in a house without a bathtub, hot water, street toilet and wet walls. In the middle of winter, these children slept on two wet pillows from the seats and covered themselves with a pair of old raincoats. There was no heating in the room, there was snow on the street, and the windows were broken.

Birmingham, 1970. A girl with her younger sister in the slums where they lived.

Leeds, 1970. Crossing the wasteland from housing buildings towards the railway.

Leeds, 1970. A girl jumping in one of the yards.

Newcastle, 1971. A family in the slum where she lives.

Newcastle, 1972. A family on a walk.

Newcastle, 1972. Mistress in the kitchen.

Manchester, 1971. Children's bedroom.

Manchester, 1970. Children play in a wrecked car on the street.

Manchester, 1969. Irish immigrants recently arrived at the Moss Side.

London, 1972. Improvised kitchen on the stairs of the house in Brixton.

London, 1972. A single mother lives in a room in Notting Hill.

London, 1969. Polina Kostrits and her younger sisters at home.

London, 1970. A child was dreaming on the balcony of his apartment block.

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