 Portobello Road Market on a Saturday in June Portobello Road Market is a street market in Portobello Road, in the Notting Hill area of West London, in the United Kingdom. The world-famous part of the market sells antiques and draws many tourists. The main market day for antiques is Saturday. However, there are also many fruit and vegetable stalls in the market serving local residents, which trade throughout the week and tend to be further north than the antiques. The market began as a fresh-food market in the nineteenth century: antiques dealers arrived in the 1960s. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1531, 641 KB) Portobello Road market in Notting Hill, London, England. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1531, 641 KB) Portobello Road market in Notting Hill, London, England. ...
A street market is an outdoor market such as traditionally held in a market square in a market town, and are often held only on particular days of the week. ...
Portobello Road Portobello Road is a road in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. ...
Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ...
Greater London and the Regions of England. ...
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Geography The market section of Portobello road runs in a direction generally between the north-northwest and the south-south-east. The northern terminus is at Chesterton Road; the southern end is at a road called Ladbroke Gardens, to the west, and Westbourne Grove, to the east. The market area is about 3,080 feet (0.58 miles or 0.94 kilometres) long. Westbourne Grove is a glamourous shopping street in Londons Notting Hill. ...
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About one third of the way from its north end, the market runs beneath adjacent bridges of the A40 road and the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground (Tube). The A40 is a trunk road in England and Wales, connecting London to Fishguard. ...
The Hammersmith and City Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured salmon pink on the Tube map, running between Hammersmith and Aldgate East, extending to Barking in the rush hours. ...
The nickname the Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ...
These are the four nearest Tube stations, with distances measured as the crow flies to the market's termini: As the crow flies is a colloquial term used to describe the most direct route between two points on the Earth. ...
- Ladbroke Grove, which lies west of the market, is about 0.25 mile (0.4 kilometre) from the north end.
- Westbourne Park, which is east of the market, is about 0.35 mile (0.56 kilometre) from the north end.
- Notting Hill Gate is about 0.4 mile (0.7 kilometre) south-east of the south end.
- Holland Park is about 0.4 mile (0.7 kilometre) south-south-west of the south end.
The market's elevation descends from 84 feet (25.6 metres) above sea level at the northern end, the highest point, to a lowest point of 65 feet (19.8 metres), just south of the overpasses, after which elevation rises and falls, before reaching a high point of 78 feet (23.8 metres) at the southern end. The average grade of ascent or descent between the northern end and the lowest point is about 1.77 percent. Ladbroke Grove is a London Underground station on the Hammersmith and City Line, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2. ...
Westbourne Park is a London Underground station on the Hammersmith & City Line, opened on February 1, 1866. ...
Notting Hill Gate tube station is a London Underground station in Notting Hill. ...
Holland Park is a London Underground station. ...
Overpass in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Flyover in Miami Beach, Florida An overpass (In UK, most Commonwealth countries flyover) is a bridge, road or similar structure that crosses over another road. ...
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In popular culture Cat Stevens wrote a song about the Portobello Road Market. Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on July 21, 1948), now known as Yusuf Islam, is a well-known British musician, singer-songwriter and a prominent convert to Islam. ...
A key scene in the 1971 Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury, occurs at the Portobello Road Market. The scene opens with a song entitled "Portobello Road". 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
Walt Disney Pictures is an American movie studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. ...
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions, which combines live action and animation; it premiered on October 7, 1971. ...
Angela Lansbury, Dublin Ireland, 2006. ...
Portobello Road market also features heavily in the Working Title film Notting Hill. Notting Hill is a 1999 romantic comedy film set in the Notting Hill district of London, England, UK. The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis who had previously written Four Weddings and a Funeral. ...
Dire Straits wrote a song called "Portobello Belle" for thir Communiqué album. Dire Straits was a British rock band, formed in 1977 by David Knopfler (guitar), his brother Mark Knopfler (guitar and vocals), John Illsley (bass) and Pick Withers (drums), and managed by Ed Bicknell. ...
Communiqué is the second album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). ...
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