Kensington & Chelsea
Kensington & Chelsea is London’s smallest borough by area. But it packs a big punch with tourist draws like Portobello Road and a number of museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
It includes some of London’s wealthiest neighbourhoods, such as Chelsea and Knightsbridge. But 2017’s catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington is a reminder of the borough’s high inequality.
Among the notable figures to have called Kensington & Chelsea home are poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and novelist Agatha Christie. Royals including Princess Margaret and Princess Diana have lived in Kensington Palace.
Up the road from there each August bank holiday, the streets come alive with Notting Hill Carnival. Beginning in 1966 as a celebration of the area’s Caribbean heritage and culture, it has evolved into one of the biggest street parties in Europe and draws millions of visitors each year.
Portobello Road in the Notting Hill area of Kensington & Chelsea
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A man addresses the crowd at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park (negative)
Grant, Henry
1964-02
A man sitting in a pub on Princedale Road in North Kensington (silver gelatin print)
Mayne, Roger
1957
A man washing a Ford Zodiac car in Addison Place, W11 (silver gelatin print)
Mayne, Roger
1956
A nanny and her charge at the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens (gelatin silver print)
Spender, Humphrey
1930-1939
A nun walking through Kensington Gardens (photograph)
Monck, Margaret, Monck, Margaret
1931-1940
A performing monkey and a llama at Petticoat Lane street market (cellulose acetate negative)
Grant, Henry
1952
A road repairer operates a pneumatic drill on Portobello Road (negative)
Grant, Henry
C. 1956
A Scene in Southam Street, North Kensington (oil painting)
Hall, Christopher
1959
A Shoe Repairing Shop, Moscow Road, Bayswater (watercolour)
Belasco, Dorothy
1943
