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Event Information:
For the Notting Hill Carnival
The Carnival Bands will take to the
roads from around 9am on Sunday 26th
August and the same time on Monday
27th of August. The Carnival parade
should complete its procession by
7pm.
Notting Hill is an affluent area in
London, England, close to the
north-western corner of Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea. It is a
cosmopolitan district known as the
location for the annual Notting Hill
Carnival, the setting for the 1999
film Notting Hill starring Julia
Roberts and Hugh Grant, and for
being home to the Portobello Road
Market. Notting Hill has a
contemporary reputation as an
affluent and fashionable area; known
for attractive terraces of large
Victorian townhouses, and high-end
shopping and restaurants
(particularly around Westbourne
Grove and Clarendon Cross). A Daily
Telegraph article in 2004 used the
phrase the 'Notting Hill Set' to
refer to a group of young
Conservative politicians, such as
leader David Cameron and George
Osborne, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. However, the large houses
have also provided multi-occupancy
rentals for much of the 20th
century, attracting Caribbean
immigrants in the 1950s who
eventually clashed with the white
Teddy Boys in the 1958 Notting Hill
race riots.
The
Notting Hill Carnival is an annual
event which since 1964 has taken
place on the streets of Notting
Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea , London, UK each
August, over two days (the August
bank holiday Monday and the day
beforehand). It is led by members of
the West Indian community,
particularly the Trinidadian and
Tobagonian British population or 'Trinis',
many of whom have lived in the area
since the 1950s. The carnival has
attracted up to 2 million people in
the past, making it the second
largest street festival in the world
after the Trinidad and Tobago
Carnival held in that country.
The
largest wave of Trinidadian and
Tobagonian people to the UK was in
the mid 20th century, when
Caribbeans and people from former
British Colonies were encouraged to
move to the UK for work, although
there was Trinidadian migration to
the UK before and continues after.
The UK, USA, Canada and other
Anglophone countries in the Western
World prove most popular for
Trinidadian emigrants, due to the
close language links (English being
the most common language in all
countries, inc. Trinidad and
Tobago). The UK and Trinidad and
Tobago maintain close links,
especially since Trinidad and Tobago
was once part of the British Empire
and remains in the Commonwealth of
Nations.
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