They are the faces of despair and squalor in Britain which photographer Nick Hedges thought had long been consigned to history.
Nick was 24 when, for a final college photography project, he went to register images of how poverty-stricken families were living around Birmingham.
That led to him spending four years documenting the lives of those on the breadline all over the country for housing charity Shelter, from inner city London to Liverpool and Glasgow.
