Portobello Beat
Celebrating Notting Hill+Ladbroke Grove’s Pioneering Record Shops
Ernő Goldfinger’s 1972 brutalist masterpiece the Trellick Tower overshadows Ladbroke Grove. Ominous but beautiful, I love looking at the TT.
Just a week ago I was writing about Notting Hill Carnival and, on Wednesday, I returned to the same neighbourhood for Joe Boyd’s book launch. Now, on the last Saturday of August, here I am again, striding those sam…