31/08/2026
Sixty years ago, a steelband stepped onto a Notting Hill street and a neighbourhood followed. It began with racist violence, riots in 1958 and the unsolved murder of Kelso Cochrane in 1959.
Today, Notting Hill Carnival is Europe’s largest street festival welcoming 2 million people across three days into one neighbourhood.
👷♂️3,000 jobs
🧳160,000 international tourists
💷 £345m a year for London’s economy.
Six decades of a community that turned exclusion into expression of culture.
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