Slum Collection (page 4)

Belfast Slum Bedsit
This poor mother dries her screaming baby after its bath, living in squalid conditions in a slum bedsit on the Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1960s

Condemned Slums
Condemned slum terraced houses in the North of England, abandoned and boarded up, ready for demolition. Date: 1960s

Street music: 1892 slum scene
A noisy street scene of 1892:children dance to a barrel organ, competing with an accordion, penny whistle and the hubbub of passers by. 1892

Street music: organ grinder claimant, 1873
The " nobleman" organ grinder: a claimant to a title whilst on tour through the Irish provinces. Though he refused to name himself

Street music: musicians at home, 1867
Street musicians of Paris leave their slum home and head out to work with their instruments. Date: 1867

Woman and Liverpool derelict house
A woman points at a terraced house with boarded-up windows in Liverpool, possibly one of the buildings destined to be demolished in the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s. 1960

1930s slum back yards, Limehouse

Scullery in slum at Limehouse

Elderly lady in front of Liverpool housing
]An elderly lady wearing a headscarf and shawl looks out at the camera on a Liverpool street of terraced housing. 1960

Good Service Work in a London Slum. Date: 1912

Social / Liverpool Slum
A family in a slum house in Liverpool Date: 1960

Terrace Backs, Liverpool
The backs of a row of terraced houses in Liverpool Date: 1961

Seven Dials / Slums / 1836
Social life in Seven Dials, London Date: 1836

Poor street in Londons East End
A poor street, location unknown, in the East End of London. Local residents, mostly children, look suspiciously towards the camera. Washing is hanging up to dry in each back yard

Dorset Street, Spitalfields, East End of London
A view of Dorset Street, Spitalfields, East End of London - sometimes referred to as The Worst Street in London. Women and children sit or stand on the pavements and the road is strewn with rubbish

Salvation Army Christmas treat for East End children
East End of London slum children receive a Christmas treat from the Salvation Army. In front of a decorated Christmas tree

Salvation Army Slum Sisters on a home visit
Two Salvation Army so-called Slum Sisters visit the home of a poor family. At the door, the mother holds a baby in her arms while another child stands barefoot on the paving stones

Westminster Slum
Devils Acre, not the most salubrious corner of Westminster

Military tailor and in family in Bethnal Green
This is a room occupied by a military tailor and his family at No. 10 Hollybush Place in Bethnal Green in the East End of London

Slum Basement Window
Two poor children peering through the bars of a slum basement, Limehouse, East End of London

Working Class Street
Working class people outside their slum terraces, London

Slum Cricket
A group of boys play a game of cricket on waste ground. A piece of wood propped up with coats serves as a makeshift wicket, while the ball is composed of who knows what?

Game / Egg in the Cap 19C
The players caps are placed on the ground; an egg is thrown into a cap, the owner of which must try to strike one of his fellow-players as they run away

Junk Shop Exterior
Exterior of a junk shop; junk is piled high in a yard with a guard dog to discourage thieves

Stale Beer Dive 1891
This underground stale beer dive on Mulberry Steet Bend, New York isn t fancy but it is cheap, and thats what counts for the boozy clientele

Dance to Organ / Slums / C19
THE ORGAN IN THE COURT London slum children dance to the organ-grinders music

Back Yards / Slum / 1870
Over London by Rail - a view of back yards from the train

Ratcliff Highway / Slums
Turn him out ! a violent scene outside a low pub off the Ratcliff Highway, one of the roughest areas in London

Manchester / Slum Street
Manchester : scene in a slum street

Cholera / Slums / 1852 / Punch
a Court for King Cholera

Nottingham Court / Slums
Slum children hanging about in Nottingham Court, Endell Street, London

Housing Shortage / 1922
Housing shortage - a former largerkeller becomes a home with cardboard windows

One Room home Earlyc20
A mother and her three children make the best of things in their one-room lodgings in a tenement house at Lisburn Street, Bethnal Green, London

Tailors Work in Slum
A group of men, women and children work as tailors in a slum apartment. They sit on the floor of a very bare room to sew

Girls & Street Organ
Slum boys and girls dance to the music of a barrel organ

Street Arabs / Slums 1908
Book: THE CHILDREN OF OUR SLUMS by James Samuelson Date: 1908

Social / Unemployed Slum
Home of a family of an unemployed workman

New York / Double Alley
People in Double Alley, Gotham Court, New York

Making Cigarettes
Jewish immigrants making cigarettes in the East End of London

Golden Square, Soho, 1853
Golden Square: site of the model lodging house, erected by the General Society for improving the dwellings of the working classes

Britain / Slum Scenes
A slum interior of a cellar in Bethnal-Green

WORKING MANs HOME 1863
A working mans home - a garret at 10 Hollybush Place, Bethnal Green, London

Homeless Arches / Slum / C19
Homeless folk passing the night under the arches of Londons bridges

Dudley Street / Slum / 1870
Dudley Street, Seven Dials

Police Patrolling / Slum
The Bulls Eye - police, prudently patrolling in a group of three, shine the light on some suspicious characters

Houdsditch / Slums / 1870
Houndsditch on a foggy evening - pavement traders hoping for a customer

ONE ROOM / SLUM / 1891
A one-room home

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