Portobello Road Market
Mile-long antiques and street market in Notting Hill, running every Saturday since the eighteen hundreds.
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This guide to Portobello Road Market in London traces its start to 1945, when the disreputable Caledonian Market shut down and its antiques dealers needed a new home. You'll hear how a muddy Notting Hill lane named after a naval victory grew from a modest produce market into a magnet for rare finds, and how by the 1960s cheap rents drew in artists, musicians and a vintage shop that pulled in Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. Look out for the stall where a young Paul Simonon, later of The Clash, once worked.
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