Sheffield Park Hill Flats Shopping Precinct 16 June 1961 Sheffield’s Park Hill area had been designated a slum before the war and saw some demolitions. By the early 1950s, the situation was ...

But by the 1950s, the century-old station had become dilapidated. Coinciding with the Manchester to London Euston line electrification, Oxford Road's old buildings were demolished, and the station ...

Through various later marriages and splits, a large section of this part of London became the Portland–Howard de Walden ... The first trades didn’t move in until the 1880s. Right up to the 1950s, the ...

In Jamaica during the 1950s, people began to gather in parks ... ruling class now felt about the sounds emerging from the slums. The hairstyle wasn’t called “dread” locks for nothing.

Many of these were taken during the late 1950s and early ... demolished as part of a slum clearance programme. A Girl Jiving in Southam Street (Eileen Sheekey) , London, 1957 Vintage gelatin ...

"Roger Mayne: Youth" is the first photography exhibition ever staged at London's Courtauld Gallery ... as his calling. In the 1950s, he set up in the slums of North Kensington and began ...

Today, 85% of the world’s slum-dwelling population is concentrated in Asia and Africa, leading many to believe that countries in the developed world have no slums.

However, in 2019, the UN-Habitat reported that across North America and Europe, a total of 0.8 million people lived in slums or informal settlements. This was a much lower value than other regions ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Doodle Streets: London 1950's Visit the Fifties & Sixties of the 20th-century London to find hidden things in this interactive, hand-drawn and animated ...

John Rocque’s map of London 1746 Fifty years later ... What was likely poor quality slum housing by the 1950s would, had they survived, be exceptionally expensive family homes today. There’s an ...

Photos show the grim conditions inside a London house where officials say "slum" landlords stuffed up to 40 tenants at a time into a four-bedroom house. Last week, a local city council banned the ...

Archive photos offer a stark window to life in Manchester in the 1950s. During the early part ... were living in the squalor of inner-city slums. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for ...