Simply Top Notch. Your narration is clear and your voice soothing and caring. Your insight into the etymology of each area adds so much more depth. I love your editing and how you started to use swipes and transitions into the videos. The angles you choose for many of the shots are super dynamic. Your love of the city shows and made me wanted to watch more and more of your stuff. My favorites so far in your series in this one on Notting Hill, Brixton, and Elephant & Castle. Yeth Thar's hypnotic soundtrack is perfect for your videos too. Bravo Dewyne you're doing a great job.
Thank you for the feedback. It is rare, but really rewarding to receive both constructive AND positive feedback together at once. Thank you for taking the time and I trust we will continue to educate and entertain you with upcoming content.
Just binge watched a large number of these. Excellent, mate. Beautiful production and extremely informative. Thanks for all the work that must have gone into them.
@@LondonDistricts All very heartfelt. I consider myself an 'expert' on many London Districts but your video content has shown there's some gaping holes in my knowledge that I'm pleased to have filled. And they're encouraging me to go further off the beaten track and further from my usual haunts!
Love this episode. Nothing gets me going like the London streets shots in this area with the overhead Tube trains ruinning. Pure urban London, love it as much now as I did as a kid.
I love your work! I love the history, vibe, music...all of it! Please don't stop! I lived in London from 67 to 80. First time I lived in Brixton on Crowley Road. Please do a segment on Brixton!....👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥂
Very shortly Carla. Thanks for supporting. We try to ensure the production of each episode is unrushed and maintains a good quality level since they are future documents more so than present.
Brings back many memories of when I worked in this district. I used to walk past some of the carnival floats while they were in construction, on a side street between the tube station and my workplace. On the carnival Saturday I was working in a house on Ladbroke Grove, and watched the whole thing from there, it was prtty mesmerising. I remember it taking about 30 mins to cross the road to the newsagent through all the crowds. I believe Rachman, though not a saint, was quite well regarded by some of his tenants. Shirley Green's book "Rachman" offers a different perspective on his life and is well worth a read by anyone interested in this part of London. Its hard to get hold of nowadays though.
You probably meant "continued for seven consecutive nights" - did you notice you said "executive nights"? Just caught my ear. ;) Love these videos, please keep doing more!
Yeah I cocked that up royally. Anyway, you are an example that the London Districts audience is smart enough to decipher what the word should have been! Thank you
Your documentaries are great. So enjoyable to listen to and well prepared. Thanks ps. I think your channel would grow faster if you included some kind of less format vlog type of content of interesting things in London, or anywhere else.
Great stuff again Dewyne. Some great shots. The drummer and dancer shot, and the aerial shot of the crowds at 7.02 onwards is brilliant. Is that from a bus? Makes me yearn for crowds again. Well done mate. 👍
Yes, quickly jumped on a bus to grab that one. It took quite some time to eventually get through plus the temperature that day was magnified on the top deck.
My old home area for many years, my parents started married life , before WWII, in two top floor rooms in Royal Crescent, bottom of Holland Park Avenue ... One of my brothers was born in Hammersmith Hospital, I was born in 1948 in St Mary's Paddington .... I remember Notting Hill being somewhat of a dump 50 yrs ago, in 1968 I lived in a flat in a road off Talbot Rd. I remember the W11-W10 area being squats, bedsit's and cheap squalid flats or rooms. Later on the rich started moving in, by 1993-94 they were buying or had bought up a lot of the old housing in Notting Hill, though it changed drastically they did have the money to restore a huge amount of the old housing thus restoring the area to beautiful old houses. Eventually it got more and more expensive to live there, I had to move to cheaper East London in 2003 as I got out priced in Notting Hill ☹️☹️☹️☹️ from 1993-2003 I lived very near the Lancaster West estate, I lived just down the road from where Grenfell was but had moved away by the time of the terrible fire that took soooo many lives ..... My youngest son had a friend he went to college with in W10 who lived in Grenfell at the time we were living in the area .... I LOVVEEDD Carnival 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😄😄😄😄😄😄 .... and I remember the guy playing the buckets under the Westway near Portobello Green ... I LOVVEEDD Portobello Market on a Saturday, and the antique shops up Portobello Rd going up to Notting Hill underground ... but I loved it all on the weekdays when tourists/visitors were gone and it was just us locals buying market produce etc..... I loved that area soooo much, so very sad when I had to move over East London ...
Wow, what an insight. You really got a taste of the area. I am sorry you got forced out by pricing, it has happened to too many. A sign of the times. It is of course not too far away to visit as often as you like, whenever you fancy. Well I shouldn't say whenever.. but hey. Be safe.
London Districts .. being priced out for too many - yeah your right ☹️☹️ Did you know that London has lost 3 big Council Estates, New Era in Hoxton, West Hendon, Heygate Estate Elephant & Castle - an Australian Development Company called Lend Lease bought up the Heygate, all the tenants were finally removed and after the Estate was tarted up all the flats went to foreign investors !!. For a longish time all the flats were left empty after being developed !!, Lend Lease were looking around Harringay next after the Heygate ... the Aylesbury Estate next to the Heygate was also on the way out to developers, I don’t know if it’s gone to developers or not. Also, originally Cressingham Gardens Brixton Hill/Tulse Hill was also on the list to be sold but I think eventually the tenants won, a lot of the housing was pulled down and new properties were built or are being built. An estate in Woolwich, 5mins from town centre/River Thames was emptied and demolished, I saw the progression each week as I went by on the bus to my sons flat in Woolwich Arsenal, so sad, don’t know where all the previous tenants went. Another estate on the borders of Dulwich and, I think W Norwood on a hill, also was allowed to fall into disrepair prior to the tenants being told they needed to move out as it was becoming uninhabitable, the tenants fought hard against forced eviction so I hope they won. I know about all of these as I signed petitions to keep the housing for the tenants and not for selling off ... my eldest son still lives in London. He lives on a huge converted Humber Barge near Battersea. He was always a South London boy, Brixton, I’ve always been a West, now East, Londoner .... I do hope I haven’t bored you as I do tend to go into lengthy details etc 🙄🤣🙄🤣
Wow yes a lot of insight and I agree with all you say with regards to the houses being bought by the rich, this is also the area where my parents started out life in England when they arrived from the Caribbean in the 50s and its where I grew up, a very nice diverse area and yes lovely walking down the Portobello Road on a sunny day and of course the famous Nottinghill Carnival which unfortunately could not take place this year 😪 I live just on the outskirts of this area and my daughter lives just off the Portobello road so we are frequently there!
Monica Gilbert ... thanks for your reply Monica ... I haven’t been to Carnival for a number of years due to health not being very good. Last time I went, about 4-5yrs ago, I went with daughter-in-law and grandchildren to what was originally Children’s Day. Was very disappointed to find out Children’s Day was no more, I used to love CD as crowds were much much fewer, the children looked so beautiful in their beautiful costumes and their dancing was so lovely ... I miss-don’t miss this area, don’t miss due to the rich turning it into a dead zone, living behind key pad operated gates in their ivory towers, but miss Portobello, and all that the area originally stood for, friendliness, kindness etc etc. Back years ago it was a fun area to live, a vibrant area, lots of nice friendly people, by the time I left it had lost all that. But in saying this, East London is no more. My mother in law, who passed on some years ago, lived first in Hackney then Bow for years, again, originally both friendly areas, all that has gone, original residents upped and moved out to Essex years ago or became old and passed on ... now it’s become house/flat shares and full of unfriendly people. I saw some time ago that the rich are moving this way now 🙄 as properties are much cheaper to buy than say Canary Wharf/Hoxton etc. Social cleansing of London is moving along fast 😭😭 ... I am now considering moving out further up the Central Line towards Essex, maybe I’ll find some original East Londoners 😂😂 one can hope eh ...... ❤️✌🏻🕯Monica and to your daughter-family .... blow a kiss 😘 to Portobello for me when your next there 😄👍🏻xxxx
@@cosm1cstar My pleasure Anna, yes unfortunately this is what's happening to many parts of London, even Brixton from what I hear🙄but I'm born and raised in this part of London and although I've seen many changes as you have said, not all for the good, I will defo hang on in there, my motto is as always "you met me here and God willing you will leave me here"🤞🏽have a lovely day and dont give up on your search for comfort & inner peace👍🏾
Deez vids are godsend durin lockdown. hope you have more footage. needs 20 mins more. "The Notting Hill slums facilitated the availability of low paid menial jobs and cheap accommodation for newly arrived Caribbeans, when elsewhere they'd be met with window adverts displaying the signs: "No Blacks", "No Irish". The kind of work and multiple occupancy housing they sought placed them in direct competition with the existing white working-class, who were already experiencing poverty and exploitation from bad employers and notorious slum landlords by the practice of Rackmanism". This is the story of London and the UK as a whole until this day - the one our current middle-class, white privileged PM, and Nigel Farage, took advantage of to further their own wealth and careers.
I lived in Acklham Rd ( when the Westway was being built) , Aldermaston st ( on old piggery site) off Latimer Rd ,Oxford Gardens and more . There was ,a big Irish community, in Notting Hill before and during these times and the prejudice was aimed at them first . There were, no happy times, living in the slums of Notting Hill but it bred a rebellious spirit and a passion for the underdog, irrespective of race or colour . So for that, i thank it although it would of been a much easier life, to just not care .
