From the conservativism of Margaret Thatcher to the rebellion of the Sex Pistols, 1980s London seemed to revel in extremes. East London (Xhosa: eMonti; Afrikaans: Oos-Londen) is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of the Eastern Cape province.

The 1980s were an iconic time for the United Kingdom, and London was at the centre of it all. Cities is supported by About this content. In never before seen pictures, The East End in Colour remembers the warmth and character of a bygone London, as captured by David Granick. Short of a world war, there was probably no other period in which the social and political atmosphere changed so drastically. Although the area still retains its roots, it is now also the financial centre of London. Many of the traditional industries of the East End died out over time but the area re-invented itself once again as a hub of London life in the 1980s.

Long established industries, street scenes, shops and ways of life were being swept away and the often divisive politics of the time were visible painted along the walls. Brick Lane exposed: a 1980s view of east London – in pictures. These pictures, taken by Horace Warner 100 years ago in Spitalfields in London’s East End, were used to illustrate the plight of the poorest children in London. When Chris Dorley-Brown stumbled upon thousands of old colour slides belonging to local photographer David Granick, he quickly set to work. The 1980s in London was a decade of considerable change.