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The NOTTING HILL was started by Rhaune Laslett
In 1964, a local Notting Hill resident named Rhaune Laslett, unaware of Ms Jones and previous Carnival activities, spoke to the authorities about organising an out-door carnival for the area. It was Rhaune Laslett, a social worker of mixed North American Indian and European American extraction, who kick-started Carnival in Notting Hill. As a pan pioneer Sterling Betancourt recalls, “ She was having a children’s Carnival, it wasn’t a big thing. There were lots of children with donkey carts, false moustaches, and an African drummer with drums made out of elephant feet.” The Nostalgia Steelband had invited their Caribbean friends from the Coleherne Pub in Earls Court, and the kiddies’ Carnival spontaneously turned into a Caribbean jump-up.


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