"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!" - Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)
From 1969 to 1972, photographer Nick Hedges took pictures of life in Salford, Greater Manchester. 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? If it is, we’d love to hear from you.
Teenage girls at dusk Salford 1969
Salford lads ‘assault’ the photographer, 1969
Mother and children dealing with the washing Salford 1971
Salford is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. It extends west to include the towns of Eccles, Worsley, Swinton, Walkden , Little Hulton, and Irlam. The city has a population of 245,600, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton.
Mother and baby Salford 1971
House painting after work, Salford 1969
Children with comic in a Salford slum property 1971
Child crossing waste ground Salford 1969
Street scene Salford 1970
Receipts for rodent disinfestation, Salford 1971
Pensioner crossing derelict land towards her home, Salford 1971
Half slum cleared area of Salford 1971
Terraced house backs Salford 1970
Street scene Salford 2 1970
Street scene and corner shops Salford 1970
Street corner Salford 1972
Salford back to back and terraced housing 1971
Mother in her backyard Salford 1971
Young girls take baby sister for a walk, Salford 1969
Street scene Salford 3 1970
Municipal washhouse, Salford 1969
Municipal washhouse 2, Salford 1969