BMXs, boomboxes and black eyes: growing up on Peckham housing estates in the 80s – in pictures

Copner Way, North Peckham Estate, 1985

Newell says: ‘My grandmother and mother moved to the Redbridge Gardens estate, Peckham, in the early 60s when it was first built, and I was born in Peckham in 1965, where we lived until 1968. I returned permanently to London with my mother in 1976. Our first Peckham home was on the prewar Sumner estate. The estate was in a state of disrepair and the flats lacked central heating, which meant they were in low demand’