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Ruston's Place, Bellar Gate, Caunts Yard, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 28th May 1919.
Ruston's Place, Bellar Gate, Caunts Yard, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 28th May 1919. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the City Council Health and Engineers Departments to record poor housing conditions, prior to their demolition as part of the post World War I housing programmes of the 1920s. The photograph shows back-to-back housing with no internal plumbing, no through ventilation, open drains in the communal yard with a water tap at the end of the drain. The people living there would have shared toilet closets and a wash house at the end of the yard. The women here are probably 'rag picking' to supplement their income, by sorting through old clothes, repairing and salvaging some, removing buttons and lace, before selling the remainder for rags.
Unique Identifier
AR930105
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3526px × 4941px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1910s
20th century
Avenue
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
building
BUILDINGS
COBBLED
COBBLES
Cobblestone
COBBLESTONES
concept
country
drain
England
English
Female
House
HOUSING
LADY
LANE
LOCATION
Monochrome
NEMPR Picture the Past
Nottingham
nottinghamshire
People
Photograph
Picture the Past
Poverty
Road
TERRACED HOUSE
TGN
Window
Woman
Women