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The origin of Notting Hill Carnival can be traced to a number of roots. [11]A "Caribbean Carnival" was held on 30 January 1959 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, [12] had occurred the previous year.
In a series of articles to newspaper correspondents and in The Grove (newsletter of the London Free School), [7] Laslett outlined the aims of the festival – that the various culture groups of Notting Hill become more familiar with each other's customs, to bring more colour and life to the streets and to counter the perception of the area being a run-down slum.
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, [1] in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and the Portobello Road Market. [2] From around 1870, Notting Hill had an association with artists. [3]
This year's Notting Hill Carnival will swap the streets of West London for computer screens around the world, as the event turns online-only due to the coronavirus pandemic, streaming hours of ...
The best places to watch the celebration of Caribbean culture, plus where to stay and tube station advice
Notting Hill Carnival, street market, Portobello Film Festival, antiques Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London . It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from South to North, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove .
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The Notting Hill race riots feature prominently in the Colin MacInnes novel Absolute Beginners (1959) and the 1986 film of the same name. On 29 September 1958, Hot Summer Night premiered in the UK centring on a white family struggling to accept their daughter's love for a black Jamaican man.