Can you believe how we used to live just 40 years ago?

This heartbreaking image of Mrs M and her four young children in Birmingham is just one of 100 that were taken by photographer Nick Hedges in Britain's slums in the 1960s and 1970s.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776842/Shocking-photos-capture-real-squalor-Britain-s-slums-poverty-meant-afford-Playstation.html

2 October 2014