Caption:

A photograph of baby Patricia asleep in a suitcase whilst Mrs M. Mullins, her mother, tries to feed her two other children, Maureen and Christopher, taken by an unknown photographer for the Daily Herald newspaper in 1946. Mrs Mullins and her husband had brought their family to Kensington, London, due to the overcrowded housing conditions in Britain after World War Two. They had decided to squat in this room in the Duchess of Bedford House, a luxury flat complex standing empty awaiting repairs. Forty-six flats were occupied by squatters in this way. This photograph has been selected from the Daily Herald Archive, a collection of over three million photographs. The archive holds work of international, national and local importance by both staff and agency photographers.