Notting Hill Carnival

[georgenorman]

I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to attend this thing.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to attend this thing.

Can't speak for now but it used to be a great couple of days. Good music and a nice vibe. As previously mentioned the crowds got too much for me and the music changed from nice reggae to overloud nonsense.

 

[georgenorman]

Can't speak for now but it used to be a great couple of days. Good music and a nice vibe. As previously mentioned the crowds got too much for me and the music changed from nice reggae to overloud nonsense.

My idea of hell on earth to be honest.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to attend this thing.

many moons ago, i left the Carnival about 5 minutes before it turned into a Riot. And wow, i had got the vibe that it would all kickoff. By the time i got back home, it was on the telly.....Pell Mell.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

My idea of hell on earth to be honest.

It's probably a different affair now but 30 years ago it was fun.

 

[Jimenez]

Can't speak for now but it used to be a great couple of days. Good music and a nice vibe. As previously mentioned the crowds got too much for me and the music changed from nice reggae to overloud nonsense.

Teddy doing a Willo

 

[PalazioVecchio]

It's probably a different affair now but 30 years ago it was fun.

1987 was a nasty violent riot. And i witnessed the buildup. Got out just in time.

from AI below.......

The 1987 Notting Hill Carnival in West London was marred by serious street violence, brick and bottle-throwing clashes with police on Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove, a fatal stabbing over a soft drink, and over 300 injuries across the two-day August bank holiday weekend event. [1, 2]

Key Details of the 1987 Disturbances

• • Timeline: The worst of the rioting and clashes broke out late into the evenings on Sunday, August 30, and Monday, August 31, 1987, as crowds began to disperse near the enforced sound curfew. [1]
  • Casualties & Injuries: Medical personnel treated roughly 346 casualties across both days, with dozens hospitalized—including multiple police officers, one of whom was stabbed in the back. [1, 2]
  • Fatality: A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death on Ledbury Road during a violent dispute sparked by a stolen can of soft drink from a local street stall, prompting a homicide investigation. [1, 2]
  • Police Response: Scotland Yard deployed officers in full riot gear with protective shields and utilized a police helicopter with searchlights to contain roaming groups and ongoing looting of street stalls

 

[Teddy Eagle]

1987 was a nasty violent riot.

from AI below.......

The 1987 Notting Hill Carnival in West London was marred by serious street violence, brick and bottle-throwing clashes with police on Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove, a fatal stabbing over a soft drink, and over 300 injuries across the two-day August bank holiday weekend event. [1, 2]

Key Details of the 1987 Disturbances

• • Timeline: The worst of the rioting and clashes broke out late into the evenings on Sunday, August 30, and Monday, August 31, 1987, as crowds began to disperse near the enforced sound curfew. [1]
  • Casualties & Injuries: Medical personnel treated roughly 346 casualties across both days, with dozens hospitalized—including multiple police officers, one of whom was stabbed in the back. [1, 2]
  • Fatality: A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death on Ledbury Road during a violent dispute sparked by a stolen can of soft drink from a local street stall, prompting a homicide investigation. [1, 2]
  • Police Response: Scotland Yard deployed officers in full riot gear with protective shields and utilized a police helicopter with searchlights to contain roaming groups and ongoing looting of street stalls

Not denying there has been a lot of trouble but you could still enjoy football matches when gangs of thugs wanted to batter each other and those involved 30,000 people not over a million.

 

[Eagle Black.]

It used to be a great day out but the crowds just got too much. Where's the fun in being stuck in an enormous mob which can't move in any direction?

I use to go back in the day, loved it, although the police know who some of the trouble makers are, and will arrest them, others slip through the net.