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1. www.thehistorypress.co.uk › article › a-briefA brief history of Notting Hill - The History Press

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   Oct 22, 2018 · Many took relatively menial jobs and found accommodation hard to find especially when so many were made homeless and forced to live in appalling conditions in part as a result of the wartime blitz. This preceded the first Race Relations Act, when it was not yet illegal to advertise rooms for rent but ‘no blacks, no Irish’.

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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.

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3. www.countrylife.co.uk › property › curious-questionsCurious Questions: How did Notting Hill go from a rural ...

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   Oct 13, 2018 · How did it come to be this way? Penny Churchill explains all. Notting Hill was a rural hamlet in the county of Middlesex until the westward expansion of London reached Bayswater in the early 19th century.

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4. www.cambridge.org › core › journals“Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the ...

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   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.

   • Author: Camilla Schofield, Ben Jones

   • Publish Year: 2019

5. www.thenational.academy › teachers › programmesLesson: Notting Hill - sources and historical context ...

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   What national records, including opinion polls and census reports, can tell about Notting Hill. Sources have different strengths and weaknesses. Common misconception

6. pastinthepresent.net › 2018/06/28 › remembering-theRemembering the Windrush Generation in Notting Hill

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   Jun 28, 2018 · Notting Hill had once been considered elegant when the first new homes were built on fields in the 1840s. But over the course of the 20th century it was a neighbourhood that declined dramatically, particularly following the Blitz.

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   Why did people move to Notting Hill in the 1980s?

   • Cheap, attractive houses encouraged young professionals and families to move to Notting Hill in the 1980s. Former multi-occupancy dwellings were restored to single-family homes or turned into flats, and as the income of the inhabitants rose, shops, restaurants and bars became upmarket.

   The History of Notting Hill - All In London

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   How did Notting Hill come to be this way?

   • How did it come to be this way? Penny Churchill explains all. Notting Hill was a rural hamlet in the county of Middlesex until the westward expansion of London reached Bayswater in the early 19th century.

   Curious Questions: How did Notting Hill go from a rural hamlet to slum

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   What happened to Notting Hill?

   • But over the course of the 20th century it was a neighbourhood that declined dramatically, particularly following the Blitz. “Notting Hill was a notorious example of a 19th-century suburb gone wrong: dotted with cheap lodging houses, bedsits and flats ‘crawling with rats and rubbish,'” wrote Nick Barratt in his book, Greater London.

   Remembering the Windrush Generation in Notting Hill – Past

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   Why was Notting Hill a good place to live?

   • The area was close to central London and it was cheap so it suited the emerging alternative lifestyles of the time. The narrative of The Other Side ends here but the character of Notting Hill was starting to change again although the old divisions between the top of the hill and the other side continue to this day.

   A brief history of Notting Hill - The History Press

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   Was Notting Hill a 'community'?

   • This article treats Notting Hill after 1958 as an important locale of new progressive thinking and action. It seeks to consider the political work that the idea of “community” did in Notting Hill, allowing us consider how the politics of antiracism relates in complex ways to the reformulation of progressive politics in postwar Britain.

   “Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the

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   What happened to London's 'Notting Hill' houses?

   • From the 1980s, younger folk who didn’t want to live in the suburbs found houses with grand proportions close to central London. Families who could no longer afford Chelsea started doing up dilapidated Notting Hill houses until they regained their value — and, judging by today’s price tags, wildly surpassed it.

   What Notting Hill reveals about the architecture of inequality

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8. www.allinlondon.co.uk › features › the-history-ofThe History of Notting Hill - All In London

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   Cheap, attractive houses encouraged young professionals and families to move to Notting Hill in the 1980s. Former multi-occupancy dwellings were restored to single-family homes or turned into flats, and as the income of the inhabitants rose, shops, restaurants and bars became upmarket.