Notting hill

About the film, see Notting Hill (film)

Typical Notting Hill Lane

Notting Hill ( Notting Hill ) - a district in London , the northern part of the administrative district of Kensington and Chelsea .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Ladbrook family, which owned land in the north of Kensington , hired the architect Thomas Ellom to turn this underdeveloped area on the western outskirts of London into an elite real estate area in the manner of Belgravia . This Victorian site was originally called Kensington Park. In 1837, a racetrack opened in North Kensington.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Notting Hill was a quiet sleeping area, where a significant proportion of the London middle class lived. Then, housing prices began to fall, and after the bombing of the Luftwaffe, it was completely built up by slums. In the post-war period, emigrants began to settle here - mainly immigrants from the Mediterranean and the Caribbean , which led to unrest on the basis of ethnic hatred.

In recent decades, London authorities have made efforts to eliminate the focus of interethnic tension in Notting Hill. It was landscaped and turned into a respectable area . Its former inhabitants are reminded of the annual colorful carnival modeled on the Brazilian one . ^[1] .