Ladbroke Grove
Ladbroke Grove is a street in west London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , which runs in a north-south direction from Harrow Road to Holland Park Avenue. It also gave its name to the neighborhood in which it is located. The neighborhood stretches from Notting Hill in the south to Kensal Green in the north. The annual Notting Hill Carnival takes place primarily on Ladbroke Grove.
history
The street is named after James Weller Ladbroke , who drove the urban development of the Ladbroke family estates in Kensington ( Ladbroke Estate ) in the 1840s. The road was completed in the 1870s.
In the 1960s, Ladbroke Grove was a counterculture center in London. After the race riot in Notting Hill in 1958, the area was excluded from development measures. People who were critical of the authorities gathered in the rundown Victorian mansions. Bands like Hawkwind , The Deviants , Pink Fairies or later The Clash came from this environment.
Web links
- The Sound of Labroke Grove and a long way from Glam! on punk77.co.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nigel Cross: Cries from the Midnight Circus: Ladbroke Grove 1967-78 on terrascope.co.uk (English)