History of Notting Hill | Abby Court Hotel in Central London

The History of Notting Hill	This short online History of Notting Hill in pictures is entirely based on Hermione Cameron’s book Notting Hill Behind the Scenes. The printed edition contains around two hundred photographs (initially postcards) of Notting Hill in the Edwardian era. “It started with a postcard of Pembridge Road, the unsung road from Notting Hill Gate to Portobello Road. Today, the row of shops you see in the postcard still exists pretty much as it was then… Seeing a familiar street all those years ago made me wonder about the past overlapping with the present.”
Thus is how the author explains the birth of the passion embodied in this book. Hermione Cameron starts collecting postcards, buying them in Portobello Road, in the Antiques market or elsewhere. Soon she gathers a huge collection and makes it accessible to the public by this work of hers that Abbey Court Hotel offers you to enjoy now in its short online version.
	The Coronet Theatre, c. 1905. The auditorium could hold 2.500 people and made it an excellent choice for West End transfers. Julia Neilson and her husband Fred Terry starred at The Coronet on many occasions before the First World War.
This Coronet programme was for a pantomime Cinderella, 1910.	Julia Neilson c. 1905. Julia Neilson ( 1868 – 1957 ) and Fred Terry formed a celebrated partnership, both on and off stage. They appeared in the first production of Oscar Wild’s A Woman Of No Importance and in 1904, as Sir Percy and Lady Bakeney, in The Scarlet Pimpernel.