Notting Hill London Gentrification

Question 1

Over the past 30 years Notting Hill has become synonymous with gentrification

Answer 1

Increased £houses - can cost more than upmarket Mayfair

1 of London’s most desirable areas for wealthy families

Notting Hill film = popularise

Question 2

STAGE ONE

Answer 2

60s/70s younger public sector professionals e.g. Teachers who rejected suburbs

= pioneer gentrification

• purchased run down areas in deprived inner city areas and made them into family homes
• Often large Victorian

Question 3

STAGE TWO

Answer 3

Mature gentrification

High earning private sector professionals e.g. Finance

Later groups often buying properties already improved by others

Question 4

What attracts people to the area?

Answer 4

• Electric Cinema - reopened 2001 following increased affluence
• ‘Trendy eateries’
• Fat Badger gastropub
• Lazy Daisy Cafe (Portobello road) famous for pudding/cakes
• Portobello market since 1837 = antiques/bric-a-brac
• August bank holiday = CARNIVAL
• largest outside Rio
• more than 1 million people attend
• 3 days
• all day street party with Afro-Caribbean music/dancing

Question 5

Background

Answer 5

Victorian times = rough, working class area

By 50s = inner city deprivation

1958 race riots between Afro-Caribbean community and local ‘Teddy’ boys