This one’s a couple of hors d’oeuvres from Richard III’s Virtual Tour of Notting Hill & Holland Park.
It’ll make you want to go on both the Virtual Tour and the “outdoor”, shoe-leather-on-pavement Notting Hill and Holland Park Walk.
Item: “it is remorselessly beautiful, it looks exactly as it did in the 1870s”
Item: “it was a terrible slum”
Item: “this is the London neighbourhood that has changed more than any other area in London”
Item: “these beautiful terraces, these beautiful Victorian houses…there’s such eclecticism and we’re going to see it on our walk.”