A-Level Geography - Human - Local Place Study: North Kensington

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  • Local Place - North Kensington
    • Physical
      • 1840s; Industrial revolution spread suburbs to North Kensington
        • Large expensive houses built, but infamous slum (Notting Dale) already there due to the land being marginal
      • 1864; Wall built to segregate rich from poor that still exists today - 19th century version of Berlin Wall
        • Quote from local - "Inequality was built into the very fabric of the streets"
        • Original plan was to join St. James's street and Wilsham Street, but was overruled
      • 1929; Rich converted their homes into flats to rent the growing amount of poor people for income
      • Early 1960s; Comprehensive Redevelopment teared down streets and replace them to tackle inequality
        • Birth of Lancaster West Estate, which saw over 15 years huge swathes being demolished and rebuilt
        • Mostly affected Notting Dale, spared Notting Hill
      • 1980s/90s; Gentrification brought pish new nightclubs, Portobello Road became full of art galleries, wine bars and night clubs
      • 2012; Cladding installed on Grenfell tower against the wishes of the locals
    • Economical
      • 1840s; Rich moving to Kensington set up on Notting Hill, Poor in Notting Dale
      • 1860s; St James's Street was home to wealthy middle class (lawyers, bankers)
        • Wilsham Street was home to informal workers in the slum (prostitutes, criminals)
      • 1929; Wall Street Crash led newly unemployed people to London, which Notting Dale was an attractive place to stay due to cheap prices
        • Rich suffered and left, making both Notting Dale and Notting Hill poor
        • After WW2, rich did not return to North Kensington but owned a large number of the large houses
      • 1957; War Rent Cap was stopped, and landlords like Peter Rachman exploited new Windrush immigrants
        • £1 a week (high rent for those days), along with 3 people per room
      • 1980s; Notting Hill homes attracted new buyers due to Right to Buy Scheme encouraged an owner-occupier boom
        • Started Gentrification in the area, returning Notting Hill to being a wealthy area
        • Started with the middle class, but then Notting Hill became film-star cool and attracted big money
      • 2010; Kensington become the most expensive place to live in the UK
      • 2018; Average income in Kensington was £150,000, while 1/3 of families in Notting Dale earn less than £16,000
        • Most unequal place in Britain
    • Social
      • 1840s; Life expectancy in Notting Dale was 11, whereas rest of London was 37
      • 1840s; Terrible reputation led to nickname of Piggery Junction that lasts today at Latimer Road Tube Station
      • 1936; One of the most densely populated parts of London, living together in poverty which united them
      • 1950s/60s; WIndrush generation arrived in North Kensington, creating a multicultural society
        • Blamed for taking jobs and homes in the area and London, so far-right nationalist groups were created
      • 3rd August 1958 - September 1958; Race Riots centred in Bramley Road, where Grenfell now stands today
      • 6th June 1959; Murder of Kelso Cochrane, an Antiguan immigrant, attracted more than 1200 people to his funeral
        • People realised that poverty united them, and the creation of the Notting Hill Carnival came to celebrate diversity
      • 1975; Previous slum dwellers put at the top of the new Lancaster West Estate, and Grenfell seen as a palace to the new tenants
        • 1980; Reputation of the estate was suffering due to crime and muggings, what tenants wanted to get away from
      • 2000s; Return of the wealth to Notting Hill separated North Kensington
        • Community became confused, as the groups never mix unlike before
      • 2017; Community of Notting Dale felt a disconnect with the council due to the wealth of Notting Hill
        • "culmination of disrespect, neglect and we were never listened to" - Grenfell resident

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