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Feb 28, 2024 · Notting Hill has long been a byword for gentrification. After its nadir in the 1950s and 1960s, with race riots and unscrupulous landlords, the west London district rose at dizzying speed.
- Joy Lo Dico
- Abstract
- Overcrowding and ‘Friction’
- Mapping The Riots
- Interracial Couples and ‘Defensive Proletarianism’
- ‘Your Streets’: Mosley on The Campaign Trail
- Conclusion
Over five nights at the end of summer 1958, a decade after the beginning of large-scale migration from the Caribbean to Britain, young white men attacked black residents and attempted to drive them off the streets of West London. The riots took place in Ladbroke Grove and Notting Dale as well as Notting Hill proper, but the disturbances were quickl...
Notting Hill’s supply of poor-quality privately owned flats made it a reception area for people from the Caribbean who were shut out of better private rental accommodation and council housing.21 In the 1950s hardly any people born in the Caribbean lived in council housing, though some from South Asia did.22 With long waiting lists for council housi...
The Notting Hill riots began on the Saturday of the August bank holiday weekend of 1958. They followed weeks of lesser disturbances in the area. On the lookout for other places where racist violence might break out after the rioting in St Ann’s in Nottingham, the Manchester Guardian reported: ‘the Notting Hill Gate-Shepherd’s Bush area … has been u...
Interracial couples were conspicuous. Majbritt Morrison, a white woman from Sweden with a Jamaican-born husband, was brought to the attention of a hostile crowd at the outset of the riots by someone who knew about the relationship. On the first night of the riots, the Saturday, a man in the crowd recognized her and shouted: ‘There she goes, a black...
Figures across the political spectrum recognized that community was one of the things at stake in the Notting Hill riots. Camilla Schofield and Ben Jones have shown how black, socialist, and Christian activists who set to work in Notting Hill after the riots framed the riots as ‘an outgrowth of a failing community’. The idea of a ‘fragmenting commu...
The significance of the 1959 contest lies less in the number of votes Mosley received than in the way his campaign identified messages that would become fixtures of racist rhetoric. An out-of-touch establishment, white people becoming estranged from their old haunts, streets being taken over by people of colour: these were all themes of Peter Griff...
Aug 30, 2018 · Sixty years ago, a mob of hundreds of people went on the rampage on the streets of Notting Hill, clashing with West Indian immigrants in race riots that shocked the nation. The nearly...
Abstract. The impact of the 1958 Notting Hill riots tends to figure in histories of the political right, as a galvanizing force for anti-immigrant sentiment—or as radical catalyst in the transnational history of the Black Atlantic.
- Camilla Schofield, Ben Jones
- 2019
Oct 22, 2018 · The Second World War brought major destruction to the area as the Luftwaffe attempted to disable key local targets like the London to Bristol railway, the Clement-Talbot motor works in Barlby Road and the Ladbroke Grove gasworks, Bombs fell randomly destroying surrounding streets and causing death and homelessness.
By the early 20th century Notting Dale (as it was then known) was wholly working class and suffering from similar problems to other deprived areas across London: unemployment, crime and overcrowding. In the 1950s immigrants started arriving from the West Indies, something which caused tension among the existing white population.
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By 1961, London's Caribbean population exceeded 100,000, with many residing in the Notting Hill area. [2] By the 1950s, a certain gang of white working-class teens known as "Teddy boys" was beginning to display hostility towards black families in the area.
