Notting hill key dates

• 1963


  Bruce Kenrick sets up the Notting Hill Housing Trust (NHHT) - raised money to provide people with good housing
• from 1950's


  Portobello market started selling food and veg from the caribbean
• in the 1960's


  Island records (Jamaican company) moved their base close to portobello (basing street)
• 1959


  Frank Crichlow opens el rio cafe - served caribbean food
• 1968


  the Metro club opened in Notting Hill - youth club, community centre and nightclub for black people
• 1969


  Basing street studios opened - used by bob marley
• 1966


  the London Free School set up - ran classes for young people and offered support with childcare
• 1970


  The Black People's Information Centre set up - offered legal support and info on black history
• 1958 


  Notting Hill riots
• Notting Hill riots key moments

  29 august 1958 - mixed race couple suffered racist abuse from white people outside of a pub

  30 august 1958 - group of white people attacked the home of Caribbean people
• 1959


  Kelso Cochrane stabbed and murdered by a group of white youths
• june 1959


  12hr demonstration took place on whitehall to protest about the colour bar
• 1959


  Oswald Mosely (founder of the british union of facists) stood for parliament and got humiliated with only 8 % of the votes
• 1958


  Claudia Jones set up the West Indian Gazette - first major black owned newspaper
• Jan 1959


  first Caribbean carnival in notting hill
• from 1966


  Rhaune Laslett (president of the london free school) developed notting hill carnival
• 1968


  British black panthers (BBP) founded - campaigned for civil rights and against police brutality
• August 1970


  March organised to protest about the police harassment of the Mangrove restaurant (over 150 people took part)