Title

Notting Hill Adventure Playground, London, 1972. Artist: CM Dixon.

Caption

Notting Hill Adventure Playground, London, 1972. During the 1950s, Caribbean immigrants were drawn to Notting Hill, partly because of cheap rents, but were exploited by slum landlords. Open access adventure playground for local inner city children were promoted as a way to decrease crime and to reach disaffected youth.

Date

1972

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

Reference

HRM19B82_010

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

43,5Mb (1,3Mb) / 15,9in x 10,6in / 4764 x 3192 (300dpi)

Keywords

outdoors urban London England childhood country youth playground climbing climbing frame day English location century slum seventies 1970s inner city 20th century Kensington and Chelsea CM Dixon Notting Hill TGN photograph portrait CM Dixon Dixon CM Mike Dixon slum housing adventure playground photograph portrait