Notting Hill the event contributes around £93 million to the London and UK economy. Notting Hill provides the setting for novels by G.K. Chesterton ("The Napoleon of Notting Hill"), Colin MacInnes ("Absolute Beginners"), Michael Moorcock (the Jerry Cornelius quartet), R. C. Sherriff ("The Hopkins Manuscript"), and Alan Hollinghurst ("The Line of Beauty"). Dan Waddel's "The Blood Detective" is a murder novel set in the past and present - featuring Notting Dale. The area's newer, wealthy residents are satirised in Rachel Johnson's novel "Notting Hell" (2006) set in grand houses surrounding a fictional communal garden. The area is also the setting of the
Portland Road, Notting Hill of the clearance of what was by then slum housing. It was partly occupied by people who worked in the adjacent Notting Hill Brewery. In the late 1930s, the far larger Nottingwood House was built at the far northern end of the road on the site of the brewery and slum housing. In the twentieth century the road began to decline with most of the houses being in multiple occupation. Notting Hill slum landlord Peter Rachman owned property in the road. From the 1960s the road began to be colonised by the middle classes again. In the later twentieth century,