Notting Dale: the making and breaking of a west London slum 1865-1946

White, Jerry (2024) Notting Dale: the making and breaking of a west London slum 1865-1946. In: Mayne, A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook to the Modern Slum. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190879457.

Abstract

The Notting Dale area of North Kensington was part of the great suburban growth of London between 1840 and 1870. It suffered reputational damage from the beginning, built close to land formerly used for brick-making and pig-keeping. As large houses were built nearby, many local workers moved in, damaging for ever the neighbourhood’s chances of attracting a middle-class clientele. In 1893, a newspaper article by the campaigning journalist George R. Sims threw a dramatic spotlight on the Bangor Street area, labelling it a ‘West End Avernus’, or hell on earth. From then on, the resources of the local state and of local Christian evangelists and philanthropists, became focused on the area, trying to drive out the rough metropolitan poor who continued to derive benefits from living there. In all of this the life-stories of the people of the Bangor Street area remain elusive, though its population can, in part, be illuminated and humanised by the deployment of family history resources. KEYWORDS London, inequality, common lodging houses, slum, slum clearance, prostitution, crime, sanitary inspection, policing, labelling, journalism, George R. Sims.

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