Portobello Road

The Portobello Road is a street in London's Notting Hill, (England). It passes through Notting Hill full length from south to north. Monday to Friday, the " Portobello Road Market " is organized as a food market there. Tourist known, however, the market is on which also second- hand clothes and antiques are offered for the Saturday markets. Since 1996, every August is held in locations in and around the Portobello Road Portobello Film Festival.

History

By the year 1740 the area around today's Portobello Road was a dirt road from the Kensington gravel pits according to Kensal Green in the north. The road was also known as Green 's Lane or Turnpike Lane. 1740, the estate Portobello ( Portobello Farm) was erected near the present-day Golborne Road. Portobello Farm was named after a British victory in the War of Jenkins ' Ear, when Admiral Edward Vernon taking the Spanish town of Puerto Bello (now Portobelo ) succeeded in Panama.

Green 's Lane was known by and by as Portobello Lane, a name which was fully acquired in 1841. The goods of Portobello Farm extended to the site of the present-day St. Charles Hospital. After the Railroads Hammersmith & City Line were built until 1864 over the grounds, sold to the estate of a Convention. The nuns built in the following years, the monastery of St. Joseph.

The city of London expanded strongly in the second half of the 19th century. In the Victorian era, therefore, gradually new residential areas in the former agricultural land developed around the present-day districts of Paddington and Notting Hill. In the Victorian architectural style arose primarily residential areas for wealthy residents and their staff as well as suppliers and distributors. With the development of the railroad and the establishment of the station Ladbroke Grove and Portobello Road was largely completed and both sides developed.

After the completion of the new residential areas established on the Portobello Road, a fresh food market ( engl. Portobello Road Market ). Since the 1960s, there antiques are sold. Today's market extends over a length of nearly one kilometer.

Special

  • The British writer George Orwell lived in 1927 in the Portobello Road, after his tour of duty ended in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
  • " Portobello Road" is the title of a 1966 published song by Cat Stevens, in particular, visitors to the road are described.
  • Portobello Road is mentioned in the song " Blue Jeans" by Blur, released in 1993 on the album " Modern Life Is Rubbish ", the " Portobello Road on a Saturday Air cushioned soles, I bought them on the " begins with the line.
  • The Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( German Title: The audacious witch in her flying bed) from 1971 contains a scene with singing and dancing on the Portobello Road Market. The song text refers to the market and the people who live and work there.
  • " Portobello Belle " is a title of the Dire Straits from the album " Communique " from the year 1979. Mark Knopfler sings also from the everyday hustle and bustle of Portobello Road in this song.
  • Portobello Road is the venue of books published in 2007 novel by Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello.
  • The film " Notting Hill " from 1999 starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant plays in Portobello Road.
  • 2009 Ruth Rendell published the novel " Portobello ".
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