Mία μητέρα με τα τέσσερα παιδιά της στέκεται διστακτική απέναντι στον φωτογραφικό φακό κρατώντας την μικρή της κόρη κοντά στο στήθος της.

Η ταπετσαρία φθαρμένη από την υγρασία και τα μαξιλάρια μουσκεμένα.

Τα παιδιά κοιμούνται σε ένα ξεχαρβαλωμένο κρεβάτι, ενώ στο σπίτι δεν υπάρχει ζεστό νερό και μία τρύπα κοντά στο παράθυρο φέρνει τον παγωμένο αέρα και κομμάτια από το παχύ χιόνι που είναι στρωμένο έξω από το σπίτι.

Αυτές είναι η συνθήκες μόλις σε μία από τις συγκλονιστικές εικόνες της συλλογής που αποτυπώνει την πραγματική εξαθλίωση των οικογενειών που ζούσαν στις φτωχογειτονιές της Βρετανίας μόλις 40 χρόνια πριν.

 Squalor: Mrs M huddles with her four young children in the council house that they share with her husband in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Their home has no bathroom, no hot water and the inside walls are running with damp. The family are pictured in January 1969 - there is a thick layer of snow outside and the windows are broken

Desperate: Mrs H lived with her husband and her baby boy in a tenement block in Glasgow which had been deserted by all other families. One morning the couple woke up to find that a demolition gang had started to tear down their home. Here, Mrs H is seen pushing her child over building debris into the cold, unlit building

Deprived: Mrs T and her family of five, including her child pictured in this photograph, lived in a decaying terraced house owned by a steelworks. They had no gas, no electricity, no hot water, no bathroom and no bathroom. Mrs T's cooking was done on the fire in the living room

Hungry: A woman and her child look up from the kitchen of a council-owned property in a slum in Balsall Heath, Birmingham in November 1969. Above them a makeshift washing line is tied to the exposed water pipes attached to the peeling, damp-ridden walls in the dank room

Harrowing: A young girl tries to soothe a crying infant by holding it close to her chest. The pair stand in front of peeling, moulding wallpaper in what the photographer describes as a 'substandard property' in Balsall Heath, Birmingham in June 1969

Haunting: A little girl looks out from a window panel in a door in a multi-let house in Toxteth, Liverpool in March 1969. With each moving image, the photographer Mr Hedges included detailed contemporary notes, extracts of which will appear alongside the collection of 100 photographs when the exhibition