The clothes and the uniforms may belong to 1977, and there may be three officers instead of today’s normal roster of two; but many Londoners still see the scene above acted out dozens of times over the course of a year.

There’s a lot more they’ll recognise in Paul Trevor’s archive of photographs, now available online at the Visual Arts Data Service, which he took in Spitalfields and the surrounding areas (including Hackney) between the 1970s and 1990s: shops, launderettes, mosques, graffiti, markets, families. There’s also a lot that we should be glad to have seen the back of: particularly the then frequent National Front and White Pride marches.

So go take a look. What stands out for me, though, is not how much more tolerant East London life has become when compared to 30 years ago, but how fragile those changes for the better actually are.