1930s Poor housing at Blaina, Monmouthshire
A woman and her small child stand outside a single-storey cottage at Blaina in South Wales. Industry in the area was centred on coal-mining and the local tinplate works and suffered great poverty and unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s
Picture No
10512996
Media ID
47555078
Size
4923px x 3238px
(5.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph from The Road to Wigan Pier', George Orwell, 1936
Date
circa 1936
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Centred Pauper Storey Suffered Tinplate Unemployment
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