Ex-railway type van in a deplorable condition, placed on waste land and housing a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female, both females were pregnant. Occupants were eventually found accommodation by Social Car
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Ref No:u01684
Title:Ex-railway type van in a deplorable condition, placed on waste land and housing a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female, both females were pregnant. Occupants were eventually found accommodation by Social Car
Location:Sheffield
Date:31/08/1950
Date Period:1940-1959
Photographer:Press Photo Agency
Copyright::SCC
Notes:

Photograph shows an ex-railway type van placed on waste land in June 1950. The van measured 8' 9 long, 5' 0 wide and was 5'7 high. The van was in a poor condition and there was no sanitary accommodation or water supply, lighting was by candles and there was a coal fired, metal stove inside the van. The van was generally in a deplorable condition, and the site around was littered with refuse. The occupants were a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female. Both adult females were expectant and both had other children, either with foster parents or in childrens homes. The occupants were eventually found accommodation by the Social Care Department.

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