Editing Notting Hill (section)

===Early to mid-20th century===
[[File:PinehurstCourt.jpg|thumb|Nos 1–9 Colville Gardens, now known as [[Pinehurst Court]], showing [[All Saints Notting Hill|All Saints]]' church in the background]]
The reputation of the district altered over the course of the 20th century. As middle-class households ceased to employ servants, the large Notting Hill houses lost their market and were increasingly split into multiple occupation. During [[the Blitz]] a number of buildings were damaged or destroyed by the [[Luftwaffe]], including [[All Saints Notting Hill|All Saints' Church]], which was hit in 1940 and again in 1944. In the postwar period the name Notting Hill evoked a down-at-heel area of cheap lodgings, epitomised by the racketeering landlord [[Peter Rachman]] and the murders committed by [[John Christie (murderer)|John Christie]] in 10 Rillington Place, since demolished. The area to the north east, Golborne, was particularly known for being, in the words of [[Charles Booth (philanthropist)|Charles Booth]], "one of the worst areas in London".<ref>{{cite web | title=One thousand years of Goldborne | publisher=Golborne Life | url=http://www.golbornelife.co.uk/golbornehistory.html | access-date=17 February 2009 }}</ref> Southam Street in Kensal Green had 2,400 people living in 140 nine-roomed houses in 1923, and the slum children from this street were documented in the 1950s photographs of [[Roger Mayne]].

In late August and early September 1958, the [[1958 Notting Hill race riots|Notting Hill race riots]] occurred. The series of disturbances are thought to have started on 30 August when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, [[Majbritt Morrison]], who was married to a West Indian man (Raymond Morrison), following a previous incident in Latimer Road tube station.<ref>[[BBC News]]: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1355718.stm Long history of race rioting], [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], 28 May 2001.</ref> Later that night a mob of 300 to 400 white people, including many "[[Teddy Boy]]s", were seen on Bramley Road attacking the houses of West Indian residents. The disturbances, [[Race riot|racially-motivated rioting]] and attacks continued every night until they petered out by 5 September.

The dire housing conditions in Notting Hill led [[Bruce Kenrick]] to found the [[Notting Hill Housing Trust]] in 1963, helping to drive through new housing legislation in the 1960s and found the national housing organisation [[Shelter (charity)|Shelter]] in 1966.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070206195243/http://www.nottinghillhousing.org.uk/news.aspx?id_Content=731 "Reverend Bruce Kenrick"], Nottinghill Houing, 22 January 2007.</ref> Nos 1–9 Colville Gardens, now known as [[Pinehurst Court]], had become so run down by 1969 that its owner, Robert Gubay of Cledro Developments, described conditions in the buildings as "truly terrible".<ref>Jan O'Malley ''The Politics of Community Action in Notting Hill'', Spokesman Press, 1977</ref>

The slums were cleared during redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s when the [[Westway (London)|Westway Flyover]] and [[Trellick Tower]] were built. It is now home to a vibrant community, mainly Mediterranean Spanish and Moroccan, together with Portuguese.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Exotic eats in West London | url=http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/food/article/1157140145760?packedargs=suffix%3DSubSectionArticle | first=Tom | last=Maggoch | publisher=The London Paper | department=The London Style | date=20 December 2006 | access-date=17 February 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109012910/http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/food/article/1157140145760?packedargs=suffix%3DSubSectionArticle | archive-date=9 January 2009 | url-status=dead }}</ref>