These historical photographs show families living in slum areas of Glasgow without basic facilities like power and water. Some families lived in one room without a room surrounded by vermin. These photographs were displayed in a free open-air exhibition in Edinburg after a restriction on displaying them was lifted. Demolished buildings, litter doorways, children playing in the trash; these photographs depict poverty that is hard to comprehend in modern Scotland.

Nick Hedges captured these photographs when he was hired by housing charity shelter to travel around England and Scotland to document the lives of families living is a slum.