After several months of hiatus Andrew manages to crawl out his flat to visit Notting Hill, a quiet village with a history as variable as being overrun with brick kilns, farmyard animals, race horses, rioting racists, antique traders and members of the film industry.
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This was made over the span of about three months because I kept getting distracted, since I filmed it, a much more successful youtuber has made a video talking about Middlesex, which serves me right for being so lazy.
I went and had a good look around Grenfell Tower, in case anyone is annoyed by it's omission, but decided not to use any of the footage in this light-hearted video. I think there's plenty elsewhere to read and watch about that tragedy if you're interested.
The painting 'Kensington Gravel Pits' (1811-12) by John Linnell 1792-1882, © Tate used under CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported), www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/...
Clips from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (1968) are used under a 'fair use' or 'fair dealing' rationale, they being used in a documentary style film to illustrate an interesting historical connection between a Hollywood film and the Notting Hill area.