Slums Gallery

The Walled City of Kowloon, Hong Kong

The Walled City of Kowloon, Hong Kong. This illegally-built block was demolished in 1994 because of health fears, It was largely ungovernable. The Walled City housed thousands of illegal immigrants from China. It was a dangerous place Date: 1984

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

1980s, 1984, 80s, Building, Chinese, City, Eighties, Health, Hong, Illegal, Jerry, Kong, Kowloon, Photography, Ramshackle, Safety, Slum, Slums, Street, Walled

Jacobs Island

View of Folly ditch, Jacobs Island. Jacobs Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century, located on the south bank of the River Thames, approximately delineated by the modern streets of Mill Street, Bermondsey Wall West, George Row and Wolseley Street. Jacobs Island developed a reputation as one of the worst slums in London, and was popularised by the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, published shortly before the area was cleared in the 1860s. Date: 1875

© Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums

Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums. Poster promoting better housing as a solution for high rates of infant mortality in the slums, showing a blueprint of new housing next to existing tenement buildings over which stands the figure of Death. Date 1936

© Mary Evans / Library of Congress

Administration, Housing, Infant, Mortality, Poster, Posters, Progress, Slums, Solution, Works, Wpa