Slum Life In Our City
In my last post, I raised the issue of photographing the slums and slum dwellers. Some photographers ventured into the slums with a social purpose – temperance advocates, educationalists, child protectionists, housing reformers -while others saw the street characters as picturesque studies for amateur photographic competitions. Liverpool’s slums were famous, and it is not surprising [...]
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Cheers Colin.
Some more images on Yo! Liverpool may be interesting to our members too
Liverpool Children Past
Liverpool People on the Streets late 1800s early 1900s
Liverpool People outside Shops and Dwellings Early 1900s
Pre-Slum Clearances Housing Images
Great research Colin and interesting to see colour, even if it is crudely added later as we tend to think of those dreary and drab 1800s pics of slum life as being without colour and it's hard to imagine it amongst the poverty.
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