Incredibly poignant pictures Tsar, sadly probably repeatable these days in several locations of poverty and deprivation around the country.
I'd forgotten about Fyfe Robertson, mentioned as having accompanied Thruston Hopkins on that photo expedition.
Robertson was a good man, sometimes featuring on TV in the old Tonight programme and later 24 Hours. If I remember rightly, he was in a similar vein as the superb and sorely missed James Cameron for his biting critiques of social injustice and poverty.
It is also interesting (but also highly damning of them) that the then City Council put pressure on those photo's not to be published in Picture Post.
I do remember a similar series of photo's in the old Sunday Times Colour Supplement back in the very early 70's that showed similar but slightly more contemporary scenes from Liverpool.
One photo that really sticks in my mind is of some poor old fellow living alone and almost destitute in a run down block in town, and he was reckoned to be probably the last survivor of (I think it was..) the Lusitania sinking. It was just so depressing, it could make you weep, but after all these years, we now seem to be going back to that same situation again.