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  1. Apr 15, 2022 · The riots took place in Ladbroke Grove and Notting Dale as well as Notting Hill proper, but the disturbances were quickly dubbed the Notting Hill riots. The area had a reputation for poverty and decay. The improvised weapons attested to Notting Hill’s shabbiness.

  2. 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
  3. 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.

  4. 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
  5. 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. The situation was exploited and inflamed by groups such as Oswald Mosley 's Union Movement and other far-right groups such as the White Defence League , which urged unaffected white residents to ...

  6. May 12, 2022 · In late August and early September 1958, the London area of Notting Hill was the scene of racially motivated riots, in which white, working-class, ‘Teddy Boys,’ and others, displayed hostility and violence to the Black community in the area.

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  8. In 1958, Britain saw rioting in Nottingham and in a part of West London called ‘Notting Dale’, known as Notting Hill today. In this area, relations between new Caribbean migrants and the...

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