Getting It Straight In Notting Hill Gate Part 1 & 2

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The latest brilliant works from our own local historian/psychogeographer Tom Vague.
Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate part 1 1066-1966 & Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate part 2 1966-2026 is now available to buy form our online store.

Pt1: from Palaeolithic to psychedelic ages featuring the Folk who lived on the Hill: Holland House chronicles and the Hippodrome racecourse, Notting Dale: the Potteries and the piggeries, Rotting Hill: 10 Rillington Place, the 1958 race riots, the killing of Kelso Cochrane, the Profumo affair, Rachman and Michael X.
A historical and psychogeographical report on Notting Hill considered in its economic, political, sexual and intellectual aspects and a modest proposal for its remedy. Centenary follow-up to Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone.

‘Vague presents this almost as the autobiography of Notting Hill with him as the inspired mouthpiece, his own biography mixed with that of the subject. He is the place.’ Cryptoforestry.

Forward by Cathi Unsworth and Cryptoforestry.

Pt2: featuring Dancing in the Street, Open the Squares, One Foot in the Grove, Underground Overground, The Sound of the Westway, State of Independents, Notting Hill Babylon, Subterania, All the Sinners Saints, Interstellar Overdrive, Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove, and Nothing Ill.

Aidan McManus Flipside London Radio Show With Guest Tom Vague discussing part 1, click play below to listen:

Aidan McManus Flipside London Radio Show With Guest Tom Vague discussing part 2, click play below to listen:

We’re selling the books in our online store for Tom. You can select local collection at the checkout, avoid postage costs & collect from us locally. We’ve added transaction fees to the price to cover the charges imposed on us by the facilitators. If you want to pay cash on collection, then we can wave those charges too, just send us an email requesting a book chatter@portobelloradio.com

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