Country Life

Worth the climb

LANCASTER ROAD makes a bold statement. Terraced houses that elsewhere would be coated in genteel white stucco or the muted brown of Victorian bricks are resplendent in bold shades of lime green, royal blue and a daring combination of purple and turquoise.

The sounds of reggae, calypso and soca may no longer fill the streets of Notting Hill, but the energy that powered them has left an enduring mark, and not only at the People’s Sound in All Saints Road—one of the few original record shops to survive

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