The Frontline: All Saints Rd, Notting Hill, London, UK - 1989
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2018
- Wicked documentary following a day in the life of Sister Netifa - who ran a Rastafarian cultural shop called 'Uprising Culture House' on the 'Frontline' area of All Saint's Road, in Notting Hill, London - filmed in 1989............
All Saints Road was a meeting place for Black youth - with various business catering to the Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove's Afro-Caribbean community and was also home to the famous Mangrove Restaurant - owned by Frank Critchlow (RIP)... but sadly through a policy of Police pressure and gentrification All Saints Rd's Black businesses have all vanished - with only one Reggae music shop called 'People's Sound Record Shop' started by the late Daddy Vigo (RIP) - still open on that road...........
This documentary shows first hand the heavy policing in All Saint's Rd in 1989 and the tensions it caused with the Black community...........
For more information about Frank Critchlow and his struggles with the police on All Saint's Rd - check these links:
www.independent.co.uk/news/ob...
www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/man...
For more information on Daddy Vido & People's Sound Record shop - check these links:
www.voice-online.co.uk/articl...
www.allsaintsroad.com/record-s...
BIG RESPECT TO GUVNA GREGAH FOR PROCESSING THE VIDEO !
Regardless of her turbulent upbringing in the care system she is such an articulate and confident young woman 🤗 - I would love to know how sis Nafira is living now 🙏🏾
Greetings from Peoples Sound Records All Saints Road (Front line)
Peoples Sound - Big up Sir! Daddy Vigo RIP
@@saffronsaffron4848 Still keeping it real here on the Line, keeping his legacy going strong.
@@peoplessound3335 Respect - the Frontline has changed over the years and the Afro Caribbean community has been moved out by the 'powers that be' - your presence and survival on All Saints Rd is crucially symbolic !!!!!!!!
Greeting Saffron , Nottingham is the same , the front line in Hyson Green has gone from in the 90s & all the Caribbean people scattered to be replaced by other nations. Its a damn shame but part of Babylons plan to keep us in bondage..... But unity is a must.
What's poppin up in All Saints Road, now? I bet it's not a frontline no more with all the gentrifiers up there.
Look at my manor back in the day .... OMG BLUES R.I.P
I miss my people, this video is deep, brings back memories,
They are still there, there’s just more of them
Ah Sister Netifa and Brother Resistance I still have your poetry books. Long long time since we reasoned together
Those council flats are gold dust now. Beautiful film. London vibes
Mercury Radio cars is still there used to use them when i was up Powis square and Lancaster studios.... this got me mad emotional and i was born that year 1989.... Respect to our Black Queens for bringing us up with pride love uno bad bad bad 🙌🏿
This was a breath of fresh air! Thank you for posting
Bizarre, don't know why this was recommended but I used to play with these 2 boys errol and shakey in the holidays in Acklam a youth club adventure centre in Notting Hill (Ladbroke Grove) when I was 10 or so... Im 42 now and yes remember their mum vaguely
Bet you don`t remember their absent dads 😁😁😅🤣
@@mjh5437 you sound like an absent dad or a potential one 👎
strange when you think this was only 11 years away from 2000
why strange
What’s your point?
What is strange about it being 11 years from 2000?
@@richmck007 Perhaps they mean it looks very vintage as in the dressing, way of life buildings etc compared to the year 2000 being the start of a comparatively modern era.
@@swiftlydoesit8480 Hmm...
Is there such a difference? Does it really matter?
I am just trying to understand the agenda here because it is difficult to read between the lines...
@@richmck007 If you compare 11 years ago in 2010 to today, things didn’t look all that different in fashion, architecture, way of life today etc (apart from Covid) but the 11 year passage between the time this video was recorded in ‘89 until 2000 things look significantly different.
There doesn’t appear to be an agenda, but simply an observation.
Thank you very much for uploading this!!
Thanks for the upload.
Good to see these class of old footage .... Important history Many thanks for the upload
There’s no place like LADBROKE GROVE!!
Yeah nothing like living in poverty.
Good old days. Takes me back. Miss the community spirit., everyday struggles...My people ✊
'You know you can't wear it to school though. The COLOURS might frighten the teachers'. Hahaha! Incredible wit! Wherever she is, I just love her!
Wow, glad I stumbled upon this video, grew up on Lancaster Road. So many familiar faces ❤️
What a great insight, thankhs for sharing
What happened to the grassroots storefront? Probably another victim of gentrification. Notting Hill had a lot going for it at the time even though it never seemed that way. The residents, even though they felt like giving up at times, were people with heart.
Some still remain.... w10
The scene in her shop reminded me of a scene in Burning An Illusion.
The whole documentary to me has that kind of feel
9:03 I get goosebumps listening to dem sing!!!
Proud of my strong black mother!!!
*them
Great documentary and what a beautiful, thoughtful lady. I'm not from Grove, but I spent a lot of my early musical life there and it became my home from home. Sadly all of the venues I used to play in have disappeared over time, to be replaced by soulless places for the rich, but I'll always cherish the memories
Fuck off ur exactly those hipsters that apart of the problem u fool
@@smashb3766 You acting a fool to blame him for something that he has no control over. Sadly the story of this woman is no different from many others whose parents were displaced from their natural homelands to become part of the under-class in Western countries by the death and destruction imperialist foreign policy of America.
@@lisettem1009 the Venues are replaces bcoz of silly uncultured middle class kids who come in and open their own independent shitty music shop
@@lisettem1009 also nothing to do with america
@@smashb3766 Thanks for such an educated response. If you bothered to read my comment you'd see that I was part of the community; we as musicians/indepents helped and supported one another. Hipster? Please. Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion, as are we all. Peace
Just beautiful. I was born in August, 1989.
I was born in setiembre 1989
I wish Id gone to the festival around this time. I was 10 years old but lived in the Midlands.
Brilliant 👍🏾❤️💛💚
What a historical document - makes me wonder if these types of documents are still being created today - with all the privacy and video prohibitions?
Real documentary ❤️💛💚
thats my friends i dont know where they are now..bless you for this
Amazing lady, excellent documentary!
Did u know her?
@@bloodisblue5801 no, but I was impressed by her. She came across as strong and wise
@@bloodisblue5801 did you know her?
Yes I used to be her sons friend, I used to go and work in that shop, she was a very strong woman just like my mother, any woman who can bring up her children on her own is strong In my book, I wouldn't be fooled by a video tho if I was u, in my opinion she was racist and I understand why but to stop your son from being a friend to a boy just because he is white is racist in my opinion and a lot of things have come out about that woman which I believe but can't say is the truth
Love the old manor! Moved away 5 years or so ago. Good friends and memories 💚 #latimerroad
They were my neighbours back in the day, that video brings back so many memories, I wonder how my good old friend earol is doing now days, I still remember his mother having a go at me lol and I also remember us nicking her sold for a cheeky smoke
Man, me too. I was at school with her youngest, Acko. Just found this video randomly and now memories from those years are flooding back, are you still in touch with the family at all? Would be nice to know their well - the film is so full of hope.
@@NetIncomeBuilder no sorry I'm not, I left London over 20 odd years ago so no
Someone told me that he is in prison tho but I don't know if that is true tho
fantastic
Great documentary.
It's such a shame that video mobiles weren't available in that decade, that's why the police got away with a great deal of unlawful arrests and deaths of black people in custody, as there wasn't any cameras in the cells or any other part of the station. Thankfully these last few years in america and here in the uk it,s legal to film the police and show how corrupt and transparent they really are. In the 80s they demolished some parts of moss side where black people used to meet up. It,s like a ghost town now.
Wow alot of my childhood people i see here .. bring back so much memeories
Only a year after the riots in London and across the country that strangely does not get mentioned and quickly forgotten. I lived in Streatham at the time.
Those were the days when lovers rock ruled the waves....despite the struggles we still enjoyed those house parties
This came up and funny but I realised that we used to live in the same building many years ago. Hope she is well.
Sista Netiffa and Brother Resistance, may your pathways be immortality blessed in the Anscetral realm. I still have important spiritual books that Netiffa and Brother Resistance would feed me with, and would say to me 'you may not understand this now, but you will in future'.
It's so ironic... Black people bring the heart and soul to an area... Make it the place to be even in it's run down state... It gets "gentrified" hate that frigging word soh till... All the soul goes out of the place...it becomes as boring as hell!
True. Notting Hill a case in point.
Respect
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Listening to the Elderly woman at 08:00 really conveys the whole story. Coloured people at the time had no knowledge of who they were, and why they were taken from Africa, and how they came to be in Africa in the first place.
It just goes to show, that they didn't understand what Desmond Dekker was singing about when he recorded the "Israelites", the first UK number one reggae hit in 1969. That song must have sent ripples of shock waves amongst the elites and the Ashkenazis at the time, hoping that no one would catch on. Sadly only the Rastafarians understood, but they were silenced with the elimination of BM 12 years later. (R.I.P.)
Ashekenazis who are they?
Who is BM 12???
@@pagethreemodel BM= Bob Marley who died 12 years after 1969. He died in 1981.
@@engleystewart4675 they're Jews from Eastern Europe.
@@Zlervo thank you!
I was a police officer at Notting hill, and I was involved in the riots of 1989, I remember hiding in a doorway with a bin lid as protection as people were throwing plant pots ,kitchen appliances etc ......I felt scared and very sad. My time as a police woman was only 2years ...but in that short time I experienced racism, homophobia, and sexism ,it was supposed to be my dream job .....but I could write a book about my time there,there were officers I respected but few.
The police were more trusted by ordinary people at that time than they are today.
Write a book, your story would make a brilliant read. We need all sides of the story to gain more knowledge
Andy JS only trusted by white people
BLESS UP🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
RASTAFARI 💚💛❤
What an amazing Woman Netifa is. An amazing Mother and although she might not regard herself as such, I say she is a proper Londoner.
I am similar age, White Londoner. The cops were always giving the Blacks a hard time. I know because my mates were Black and we would be stop and searched sometimes as much as five times a day for no reason at all other than the cops had nothing better to do.
It was great to see the cops being filmed as they started their nonsense and had to make a sharp exit because they knew their every action was recorded. Amazing for me to see that because nowadays, 30 years later there is a present day movement of Activists named Auditors that hold cops to account by live streaming their every move. A real game changer.
RIP blue
does anyone know the artist name of the song beginning at 23.49
There were two other programs in this series. One was about Bubbles and the other may have been about Gus, but i don't remember. I would like to see the other shows on here but can't find.
Stephanie Mathivet I may have another part - in around 3 weeks
@@saffronsaffron4848 brilliant. My son took part in this series Bubbles is his dad. Would be good to see that again. Meanwhile what a video history book you are. A real record off Black cultural life. I knew Sista Netifa and this film was a real tribute to her at the best part of her life. She sadly succumbed and her life mashed up. Some say she is no longer with us. No matter where she is I hope she is in peace.
Stephanie Mathivet RIP
@@stephaniemathivet1648 last part is here : ruclips.net/video/jUqO-A1Mu6w/видео.html
@@stephaniemathivet1648 Amen
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Gee some familiar faces in this
nice
17:13-17:14 does she means Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn?.
What an incredible woman
I woukd have loved to of met her, sadly i heard she is no longer with us :(
These are my ends! Wow gentrification is real & alive ppl!!
"Ends" so cringe.
Where is sister Nertifa now?
Maggie Edwards
I loved to know ❤️💛💚⭐️🙏🏾
Crack cocaine swept through the area like a plague, starting in 1987. Not sure that Netifa survived the epidemic
@@FIGHTGAME100 after watching the documentary and hearing this lady speak, this comment broke my heart. I hope wherever Netifa is now, she is at peace
@@TomMurrayMusic Amen
@@FIGHTGAME100 why would you assume that a clearly educated woman with a business of her own and children to look after, would succumb to drug addiction??
It was middle/upper class originally, then it fell into a long period of decay, now it's gone back to its roots, as a middle/upper class area.
In the 1950s the area was a slum and no white people wanted to live there, so the blacks were put there. The area became popular because of notting hill carnival
@@gubilasco9022 Bollocks,whites have always been the majority there.
@@mjh5437 do your history knobhead, Notting hill was a shithole until blacks moved to Ladbroke grove and carnival. Facts
@@larryburns9420 It was a predominantly white shithole,the blacks just turned it into even more of a shithole,thar`s why it was cheap for so long.
@@mjh5437 In the 1950s, Notting hill was a rat infested shithole and the white working class majority of Notting hill and nottingdale couldn't wait to get out of the area, especially when the black community came. Many uneducated whites moved to east London (Stepney/Whitechapel) because those areas were better than Notting hill at the time. Furthermore, Kensington and Chelsea council receive millions of pounds just in the two days of the notting hill carnival. And that's why the area is NOW affluent. If you have any real interest in truth then you would check out videos of notting hill from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and you will notice how the area has improved and been generously financed
Power Mom !!!!!
Big up all da elders guys dat wen I use 2 go down 2 da hole da basement 4 my herbs I was only 17 at dat time great weed back den..my favourite red beard
Ah yes the red beard!
Opposite the Apollo
Song 24:39?
Its like a Colin Jones "movie"
No one cares about Us We Still here this is so strong..we work hard contributed to society to survive and always disrespected for our Love of Life and Self Dignity...even our parents suffered so much for coming here..brought their culture here and every nation has profited off US..don't no one tell Damm lies we still here..check the area now..you tell me..where is our money we well overdue..
Olga Morris Talk da ting sista!
BLUES.🌿
Name of this song @8:52?
sister netifa - woman determined
@@monekh2 cheers 😉💯
I worked on a building site for several months in nearby basing st during the mid 90’s and used to drink in The pelican. It was a naughty little area especially as night fell. Must be all gentrified now, The Pelican is probably gone too..
The Pelican's still there. Don"t visit though,
First time I got nicked was in one of those vans
How admirable.
I used to score my dope on a regular basis down the Old Saints Road.
Aren`t you the lad.
Wow imagine back then we used proper english when speaking. Listen to us speak english now
Shit on the Streets, No on bother,Ed To pick it UP.
Theres only 1 Frontline and thats in Brixton.
The filth never change, they are actually worse now.
Same yesterday and today all what they do they can’t get rid of us . example of this the sprit of this black woman.
black english mums can be fierce lololol they run a tight ship
You can t go to someone else s country and Disrespect them ..SMDH
Are you referring to when the English go to other countries and commit genocide on the indigenous population. Anyway the guys that you are referring to in the video were probably born in England.
Woke Idris Please tell that illiterate.
@@jaydaksy4094 this guy is a real idiot
Bloody Cheek. Go check out the UK's history in other countries.
@@njemilenantan5833
I did and I found out that their behaviour is By far better
If it was throat cancer, I am not surprised, she always had a cancer stick in her hand.😩🙏🏾
I found her comments to the white woman and about the unconscious white man to be despicable. It eroded my sympathy and respect for her.
You clearly didn't hear the way the white woman spoke to her!! You gonna be delegating but doing nothing yourself about the problem apart from walking past it whilst demanding someone else deals with it. I don't think so.
She lookS 👀 like man 👨🏾 on the THUMBNAIL
U all hv such LOW SELF ESTEEM but always try to hide it but it is SO EVIDENT in ur comments, SAD✅
She was a lovely lady thay was my neighbours for years sadly she aint with us know more the son told me the other day that mum past away 5 years ago good family
Which son? I was at school with Acco, would like to reconnect
@@NetIncomeBuilder Neville shaky
@@nickybrown9799 Thanks
@@NetIncomeBuilder where you from did you go Paddington primary
@@nickybrown9799 Yeah, started in 89 I think, was there about 3 years.