Portobello Road
The Portobello Road is a street in the London district of Notting Hill ( England ). It crosses Notting Hill in full length from south to north. The "Portobello Road Market" is held there as a food market from Monday to Friday. The market is known to tourists for the Saturday markets, which also sell second-hand clothing and antiques .
The Portobello Film Festival has been held every August in and around Portobello Road since 1996 .
history
Until 1740 the area around what is now Portobello Road was a dirt road from the Kensington gravel pits to Kensal Green in the north. The trail was also known as Green's Lane or Turnpike Lane . In 1740 Portobello Farm was built near what is now Golborne Road . Portobello Farm was named after a British victory in the War of Jenkins' Ear when Admiral Edward Vernon captured the Spanish city of Puerto Bello (now Portobelo ) in Panama .
Green's Lane gradually became known as Porto Bello Lane , a designation that was adopted in full in 1841. Portobello Farm's estates were located on what is now St. Charles Hospital. After the Hammersmith & City Line railroad had been built over the site until 1864, the estate was sold to a convent . In the following years the nuns built the monastery of St. Joseph.
The city of London expanded rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. In the Victorian era, new residential areas gradually emerged in the formerly agricultural areas around what is now Paddington and Notting Hill. In the Victorian architectural style, residential areas were created for predominantly wealthy residents and their servants as well as suppliers and dealers. With the development by the railroad and the establishment of the Ladbroke Grove station, Portobello Road was largely completed and built on on both sides.
After the completion of the new residential areas, a market for fresh groceries was established on Portobello Road (English Portobello Road Market ). Antiques have also been sold there since the 1960s. Today's market extends over a length of almost a kilometer.
particularities
British writer George Orwell lived on Portobello Road in 1927 after retiring from the Indian Imperial Police in Burma .
The 1999 film Notting Hill, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant , is set on Portobello Road. The Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (German title: The daredevil witch in her flying bed ) from 1971 contains a scene with singing and dancing about the Portobello Road Market. The lyrics relate to the market and the people who live and work there.
Portobello Road is the title of a 1966 song by Cat Stevens that specifically describes the visitors to the street. Portobello Road is also mentioned in the song Blue Jeans by Blur , (1993), which begins with the line "Air cushioned soles, I bought them on the Portobello Road on a Saturday". Portobello Belle is a Dire Straits title from 1979; In this song, Mark Knopfler also sings about the everyday hustle and bustle on Portobello Road.
Portobello Road is the setting for the 2007 novel The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho and also the story Mandarinen from Jaffa by Patrizia Joos . In 2009 Ruth Rendell published her novel Portobello .
The English textbook series of the Diesterweg Verlag is in and around Portobello Road.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 50.8 " N , 0 ° 12 ′ 13.4" W.