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- The Notting Hill riots took place in late August and early September 1958, and coincided with similar unrest in Nottingham. In the late 1950s, North Kensington (including Notting Hill) was an impoverished area of London, with high crime rates and a shortage of housing.
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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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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
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
- 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 21, 2024 · Taking a walk through the area now, it is hard to imagine that in the 1950s, Notting Hill was extremely deprived, and home to a large West Indian community following the arrival in London of the...
Oct 22, 2018 · In common with many of Britain’s crumbling Victorian cities, the late fifties and early sixties saw the start of mass slum clearance in Notting Hill. More houses were demolished for the construction of the Westway elevated motorway, which blighted much of the area.
The Notting Hill riots of 1958 did not see anyone killed, there were no huge areas of cityscape destroyed and the number of arrests and convictions only numbered one hundred and forty.
