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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’.
Why was The Mangrove an important space for the black community of Notting Hill?
Poverty was a problem across London after the end of the Second World War. Finding places to work and to live was challenging for Caribbean migrants, with few landlords willing to rent to them. As a result of a lack of available housing, overcrowding became a huge problem for Caribbean migrants.
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
But it wasn’t just its grey, depressing appearance; the lifts hardly worked, the smell of urine permeated the bock, and there were reports of vandalism, burglaries, and even rape and suicide. Cheap, attractive houses encouraged young professionals and families to move to Notting Hill in the 1980s.
By the early 21st century, after decades of gentrification, Notting Hill had gained a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area, [4] known for attractive terraces of large Victorian townhouses and high-end shopping and restaurants (particularly around Westbourne Grove and Clarendon Cross).
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Feb 4, 2013 · It is quite hard to believe that one of London’s most fashionable areas was described as “a massive slum, full of multi-occupied houses, crawling with rats and rubbish” only 50 years ago – definitely a no-go area.
