So much more desirable than Notting Hill where I was living in the next road but one. Up & coming but still a bit, well, bohemian, don’t you think
Well since then the old place has been turned in to an icon by a film, and the Wedgwood-Benn family mansion, on the posh south side of Holland Park Avenue, was described by New Labourite Cherie Blair as Notting Hill in Speaking For Myself
In fact Notting Hill now seems to stretch from the Shepherds Bush roundabout to Queensway (though not as far as Connaught Place) & from High Street Ken to Kensal Rise (MY dear! Not north of the motorway! Oh well, handy for Sainsbury’s I suppose)
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I am convinced it is a most ridiculous thing to go around the world when by staying quietly, the world will go round you
Charles Darwin: Voyage of the Beagle
