Carnivals & Festivals – The Notting Hill Carnival – London – 1976 - from our story 'Notting Hill, London, 1950-2000: Murder, Race Riots And Slumming It With The Super-Rich'

Reading an evening paper in bed at St Charles' Hospital, Ladbroke Grove, west London today, is Inspector Ian Quinn, part of a police reinforcement from Gerald Road police station, Pimlico, called in to deal with yesterdays race riots at Notting Hill. The inspector received a head wound and was among 325 policemen injured when the Notting Hill Carnival turned violent. Ref #: PA.7694405 Date: 30/08/1976