Jane O'Grady
Hamblecha of Notting Hill
meets the mother of the Carnival
‘You’re still the oldest Mrs Hippy in town.’ Rhaune Laslett was being greeted at the Notting Hill Carnival, which she herself started in 1965, by a couple she had not seen for over 20 years. She had helped rehouse them and their baby, who now towered over her, during the time when she ran an advice bureau for Notting Hill’s inhabitants to help with housing, legal and other problems. She also initiated the London Free School, created ‘the most beautiful playground ever made’, and brought up two children.
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