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Shelter Archive of photographs by Nick Hedges

Shelter Archive of photographs by Nick Hedges

Shelter Archive of photographs by Nick Hedges

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Gelatin silver print entitled 'Bath with wooden lid and panels'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Bath with wooden lid and panels

1970-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'At the back gate'. Photograph by Nick Hedges. Bradford, May 1969.

At the back gate

1969-05

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Disused local picture house'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Caerau, June 1970.

Disused local picture house

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr and Mrs Dixon had lived with their 3 young children on the ground floor of a multi-let house Mr Dixon was unemployed, "I go out each day looking for work, but it's getting worse"'. See interview p.56 'Condemned'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, West End, Newcastle, June 1971.

Mr and Mrs Dixon…

1971-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Schoolgirl from the tenements'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Schoolgirl from the tenements

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Liverpool 8 March 1969. Mr & Mrs O lived with their 3 children on the first floor of his mothers condemned house. Mr O was unemployed and had been forced to give up his new council flat in Kirkby because he could not afford the rent. They had lived in rooms, but the landlord had harassed Mrs O and threatened the children physically, so that they moved into his mother's house. The council withdrew their offer of rehousing Mrs O's mother until Mr O and family moved out of her condemned home'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Mr & Mrs O lived with their 3 children on the first floor...Liverpool 8

1969-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'January 1970, All Saints, Birmingham. Mrs B'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Mrs B

1970-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Liverpool 8, March 1969. Girl at the doorway of a multi-let house in Upper Parliament Street'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Girl at the doorway of a multi-let house, Liverpool 8

1969-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr and Mrs M and their four children lived in a council owned house in Vincent Crescent, Balsall Heath. Apart from the poor state of the property:- no bathroom, no hot water, outside lavatory, inside walls running with damp - these children were sleeping in the middle of winter, on two sodden seat cushions covered by a couple of old 'macs', there was no heating in the room, the snow lay thick outside and the windows were broken'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Birmingham, January 1969. Mr and Mrs M and their four children...

1969-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Post box'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Post box

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Tin bath hangs on outside wall of a back-to-back house'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Leeds, West Yorkshire, July 1970.

Tin bath hangs on outside wall of a back-to-back house

1970-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Evening at a youth club'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Liverpool, May 1970.

Evening at a youth club

1970-05

Gelatin silver print entitled 'The kitchen of a corporation-owned house'. See surveyor's report p.24 'Condemned'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Liverpool 8, July 1971.

The kitchen of a corporation-owned house

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Stagnant water in courtyard of tenement'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Stagnant water in courtyard of tenement

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Funeral notice in a grocer's shop window'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Cymmer Afan, Glamorgan, June 1970.

Funeral notice in a grocer's shop window

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Row of condemned houses'. Liverpool 8, March 1969. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Row of condemned houses

1969-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'June 1969, Brent, London. Children in a hostel for homeless families'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Children in a hostel for homeless families

1969-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Kitchen of a terraced house'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Kitchen of a terraced house

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Farm labourer's widow and her cottage'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Farm labourer's widow and her cottage

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'June 1969, Brent, London. Children in a hostel for homeless families. When SHELTER visited this hostel there were 19 people sharing this one room'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Children in a hostel for homeless families…

1969-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'June 1969, Harlesden, London. Families left in limbo by a change of council and change of plans. Area designated slum clearance by Labour, then when Conservatives came in, plans were stopped. By this time half the homes were empty and all the shops closed'. Picture shows 3 ladies and 1 child outside houses and was taken by Nick Hedges, June 1969.

Families left in limbo by a change of council and change of plans…

1969-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Farmworkers' houses (1859)'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Farmworkers' houses (1859)

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'June 1969, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Children living in substandard property'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Children living in substandard property

1969-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'October 1969, Liverpool 8. Fireplace surrounds of a Biafran'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Fireplace surrounds of a Biafran

1969-10

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Pensioner in a shelter in a park'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Pensioner in a shelter in a park

1970-05

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Painted sign', showing Jesus 'Saves' on rock face', photographed by Nick Hedges between Caeran and Cymmer Afan, Glamorgan in June 1970.

Painted sign

1970-06

Untitled silver gelatin print, photographed by Nick Hedges, Moss Side, Manchester, May 1970

Untitled silver gelatin print

1970-05

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Children at the doorway of Mrs Birtles house'. See interview p.78 'Condemned'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Children at the doorway of Mrs Birtles house

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Tenement courtyards'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Tenement courtyards

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mobile grocery store'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Cymmer Afan, Glamorgan, June 1970.

Mobile grocery store

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled '"It's disgusting and appalling. The Housing Minister (Pater Walker) came round here and said it wasn't fit for human habitation, and I'm still here." Mrs Chichockjy'. See interview p.28 'Condemned''. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

It's disgusting and appalling…

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Car park next to shopping precinct'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Car park next to shopping precinct

1970-08

Gelatin silver print entitled 'New housing, industrialised building techniques'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Killingworth New Town, North Tyneside, July 1970.

New housing, industrialised building techniques

1970-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Liverpool 8, March 1969. Graffiti on door of derelict house (anti-Wilson)'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Liverpool 8, March 1969…

1969-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Birmingham (Balsall Heath). Children living in substandard property'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Birmingham (Balsall Heath). Children living in substandard property

1969-05

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr & Mrs Kilna lived with 2 children in a single roomed tenement flat. The flat was exceptionally damp and its fabric was in very poor condition. The family were rehoused by Christian Action Housing Association'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Mr & Mrs Kilna lived with 2 children…

1970-10

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Ann Mead lived with her husband and five children in a slum property. "There's too much depression round here, it drags you down"'. See interview and household budget p62 - 63 'Condemned', Photograph by Nick Hedges, West End, Newcastle, June 1971.

Ann Mead lived with her husband…

1971-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Village schoolboys returning from swimming lessons'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Village schoolboys returning from swimming lessons

1970-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Girl from Paddington Comprehensive School helping to run a pre-school playgroup in a converted Corporation bus'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Girl from Paddington Comprehensive School…

1970-05

Gelatin silver print entitled '"Forty-two years down in the pits" - Mr Beck'. See interview p.72-73 'Condemned'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Forty-two years down in the pits

1971-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Painting a fence'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Painting a fence

1970-06

Untitled gelatin silver print showing a tattoo parlour shop window, photographed by Nick Hedges, May 1970

Untitled gelatin silver print showing a tattoo parlour shop window

1970-05

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Kitchen of the top flat of a tower block'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Kitchen of the top flat of a tower block

1970-07

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Rooftops looking down the Tyne'. March 1969. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Rooftops looking down the Tyne

1969-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'The kitchen of a Victorian terraced house'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

The kitchen of a Victorian terraced house

1971-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr G lived in Acre Street, now slum cleared, at the bottom of the road the mill. Inside his little terraced house he had an old kitchen range, he remembered going to London once - he visited Madame Tussauds, showing Mr G standing in doorway of terraced house. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Mr G lived in Acre Street…

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Liverpool 8, March 1969. Street scene in an inner-city slum area (small boy in foreground)'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Street scene in an inner-city slum area…

1969-03

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Livingroom of a middle-class home'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Livingroom of a middle-class home

1970-08

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Flat blocks and path'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Flat blocks and path

1970-08

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Courtyard of a tenement'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Courtyard of a tenement

1971-07

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