Notting Hill Carnival stamp issue 1998

Notting Hill Carnival 20p stamp 1998

Notting Hill Carnival 26p stamp 1998

Notting Hill Carnival 43p stamp 1998

Notting Hill Carnival 63p stamp 1998

Key facts

• The Notting Hill Carnival is held every year in August in Notting Hill in London
• The Carnival began in 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall and moved to Notting Hill in 1965
• In 1958 the the first widespread racial attacks in the UK had occurred in Notting Hill
• The Carnival was started as a response to these riots
• At first the Carnival was a Notting Hill event but it has since become more of a Caribbean event
• Much of the Caribbean population in the area have lived there since the 1950s
• The carnival attracts large numbers of people every year
• In 2000 1.5 million people attended
• The Notting Hill stamps were issued in August 1998