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Oct 30, 2026
Richard NorrisGUEST
I kind of went to school in St. Albans in Hertfordshire and then moved sort of the dawn of 88.
Richard NorrisGUEST
I moved to Labrador Grove where I lived for many, many years and lived on Portobello Road and just around the back, the kind of top end of Labrador with the kind of less posh end or what was the less posh end which is now you know another posh end of Notting Hill but yeah and had an incredible time in Labrador Grove there was I mean there was just so much going on at that point I was living on Goldborne Road and around the corner there was a kensal road that was that was probably about 50 studios at the time there was these big kind of warehousey spaces loads of studios and there was i had a studio i shared a studio with the boys zone with terry farley and andrew and then we had at the grid studio where we worked a lot eastcote was there there was our record company was there virgin and our PR and a graphic designer.
Richard NorrisGUEST
I literally had to walk around the corner from where it was and the entire sort of world of, of, of dance music was just, just there.
Richard NorrisGUEST
And, uh, and on, on a Friday night, I go to the pub on the corner and, you know, pretty much guaranteed to pick up a remix basically.
Marnie ChestertonHOST
One group took over all the houses across a few streets and, as part of the battle against eviction, declared themselves the Independent Micronation of Fristonia.
Marnie ChestertonHOST
This is all the more extraordinary if you know that Notting Hill, the neighbourhood which surrounded this newly independent state, is today the sort of place where homes sell for millions.
Marnie ChestertonHOST
My favourite detail from the brief life of this country is that they made their own passports and postage stamps.
Marnie ChestertonHOST
And that the Royal Mail, or rather the postmen and postwomen of the UK's National Postal Service, charged with sorting letters, clearly looked at these odd stamps appearing on the post, shrugged and delivered them anyway.
Hugh HendryHOST
And I need that jagged edge of the two communities kind of living side by side, if you will.
Hugh HendryHOST
But I spent 20 years in Notting Hill and it becomes less and less as we gentrify.
Hugh HendryHOST
But you had both.
Hugh HendryHOST
Kensington, and I'm dropping these London names, it was simply rich people.
Robert EvansHOST
And Rockman realizes that like, well, one thing that consistently pushes white people to break their leases is having black neighbors, right? So he starts to realize this is a reproducible business strategy that I can use to make a shitload of money.
Robert EvansHOST
Historian Gary Powell writes that by 1956, Rockman had acquired some 30 properties in the Notting Hill area of West London.
Robert EvansHOST
Quote, many of them run down or derelict.
Robert EvansHOST
Powell adds, Rockman saw an opportunity devising a plan that he ruthlessly implemented.
Kevin FosterGUEST
think.
Kevin FosterGUEST
How big is like his empire getting at this point? Like he's got
Robert EvansHOST
like 30 something properties in Notting Hill at this point in time.
Robert EvansHOST
Right.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
It's been such an amazing experience.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
One of my favorite things to do is to jump on a bike here in London and we go to different coffee shops and, you know, stroll Notting Hill, go into all the antique stores and When I have a proper day off, I love to go get some food.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
I had this amazing Persian Iraqi meal in Hackney the other day that I'm still salivating thinking about.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
I'm hoping to feature them on the podcast soon.
Joel CreaseyHOST
That was very lucky.
Joel CreaseyHOST
I just happened to be in Notting Hill.
Joel CreaseyHOST
Yeah,
Jason DonovanGUEST
I text.
Jason DonovanGUEST
You said,
Joel CreaseyHOST
well, let me know when you're in Notting Hill.
Joel CreaseyHOST
I said, I'm at this park.
Joel CreaseyHOST
You're like, what? You're around the corner? It
John Du PrezGUEST
They said they wanted to buy it.
John Du PrezGUEST
I went into a room in Notting Hill and there was just one man sitting in the room and it was Richard Branson.
John Du PrezGUEST
He just set up Virgin Records and he said that Tangerine Dream wanted a VCS3 and, you know, so he...
John Du PrezGUEST
he gave me cash for it and you know Tangerine Dream but I was in on the kind of very early days of the development of synthesizers you know so I've always
Sam NapierGUEST
We signed an NDA about, so I won't say, but some huge bullshit and then also getting sued by Taqueria.
Adam CocklinHOST
So Taqueria is this chain in Notting Hill.
Adam CocklinHOST
Yeah, they don't exist anymore.
Adam CocklinHOST
Is it a chain or they just had one in Notting Hill? I think
Sam NapierGUEST
they had
Michelle Salazar de la RochaGUEST
two.
Keith BreslauerGUEST
And that's what we think about.
David PralongHOST
But I live next to Notting Hill, great schools, arguably like lots of amenities, next to parks.
David PralongHOST
You have everything within walking distance.
David PralongHOST
I struggle to see how many middle-class family could afford a two, three bedroom today with other helps on their parents.
David PralongHOST
And
Keith BreslauerGUEST
we're helping them to help the buy, let's say.
Keith BreslauerGUEST
Or going to your earlier point, knocking some of those Victorian buildings out in Notting Hill and creating larger blocks of residential.
Keith BreslauerGUEST
The challenge is, does that work over time? So if you look through history, how have people, I mean, this is not a new problem.
Wolfgang MunchauHOST
Yet these people need to live somewhere.
Wolfgang MunchauHOST
When I started off as a journalist in the 1980s, The generation ahead of me, the people who were retiring in those years, when I started, they all had big houses in places like Kensington and Notting Hill in London.
Wolfgang MunchauHOST
That is unheard of.
Wolfgang MunchauHOST
Today, nobody, even the highest paid journalists, would struggle to afford places like that.
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