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Notting Hill, c1948–c1970

The local context of Notting Hill

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Overview

Decayed Victorian terraces, why Caribbean newcomers settled there, the Empire Windrush, the British Nationality Act, reasons for leaving the Caribbean, houses in multiple occupation, Rachman and Rachmanism, Bruce Kenrick's housing trust and Portobello Road market.

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Key term

What sort of housing made up most of Notting Hill by the late 1940s?

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Why did Caribbean newcomers settle in Notting Hill rather than in most other parts of London?

Key term

Which ship's arrival in June 1948 is taken as the beginning of large-scale Caribbean migration to Britain?

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  1. 1

    What sort of housing made up most of Notting Hill by the late 1940s?

    Model answer

    Large Victorian terraces built for wealthy families a century earlier, which had decayed and been split into cheap rented rooms.

  2. 2

    Why did Caribbean newcomers settle in Notting Hill rather than in most other parts of London?

    Model answer

    Rents there were low, and its landlords would take Black tenants when landlords almost everywhere else refused them.

  3. 3

    Which ship's arrival in June 1948 is taken as the beginning of large-scale Caribbean migration to Britain?

    Model answer

    The Empire Windrush, which docked at Tilbury carrying 1,027 passengers, more than 800 of them from the Caribbean.

  4. 4

    What right did the British Nationality Act of 1948 give people living in Britain's Caribbean colonies?

    Model answer

    It confirmed them as British subjects, free to enter Britain and to live and work there.

  5. 5

    Give two reasons why people left the Caribbean for Britain in the 1950s.

    Model answer

    Unemployment and low wages at home, and the promise of steady, better-paid work in Britain.

  6. 6

    What is a house in multiple occupation?

    Model answer

    One house divided up so that several separate households each rent a single room and share the kitchen and lavatory.

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