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Met Officers on duty at Notting Hill Carnival earlier this year (Getty Images) The survey, run in the members’ area of the Metropolitan Police Federation website, received 486 responses.
Notting Hill Carnival 2023 spans the August bank holiday weekend from Saturday 26 to Monday 28 August and most of the celebrations are free for anyone to attend. Saturday 26 August
Many attendees dressed in colourful, sparkling costumes to match the dancers.
The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival that took shape in the mid-1960s had two separate but connected strands. A "Caribbean Carnival" was held on 30 January 1959 [7] in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the problematic state of race relations at the time; the UK's first widespread racial attacks, the Notting Hill race riots in which 108 people were charged, [8] had occurred the previous year.
Girl in costume at the Notting Hill Carnival. London hosts several festivals, fairs and carnivals throughout the year with over 40 free festivals each year. The most famous is the Notting Hill Carnival, the world's second largest carnival. The carnival takes place over the August bank holiday weekend, and attracts almost 1 million people.
In 2006, Henderson was appointed a member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Services to Music. [8]On Friday, 24 August 2012, just prior to the Notting Hill Carnival weekend, the Nubian Jak Community Trust organised the unveiling of two blue plaques in Notting Hill at the junction of Tavistock Road known as "Carnival Square", to honour the contributions to the development of ...
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