Lively scenes at the 20th Century Theatre in Westbourne Grove when the Mayor of Kensington, Charles Williams, took to the stage to sing the praises of Portobello.
“What are you going to do about protecting it?” shouted Ivo Dawnay, speaking as a local resident rather than as London director of the National Trust.
Portobello luminaries such as Dawnay’s wife Rachel Johnson, Thomas Pakenham, Piers Paul Read, Rachel Billington, Paul and Marigold Johnson, Charles Cholmondeley and Josceline Dimbleby were celebrating the launch of Portobello Voices by Blanche Girouard.
This collection of local character portraits has been published by the History Press and the Portobello and Golborne Management Committee to save the neighbourhood from development.
But what is the Mayor going to do about it?
As Dawnay is Boris’s brother-in-law, he knows how to argue with mayors.
