The Napoleon of Notting Hill the start of Neil Gaiman's novel "Neverwhere". Both the novel and Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" are referenced in the 2000 video game "Deus Ex". (with illustrations by W. Graham Robertson) The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not
The Tabernacle, Notting Hill and Carnival Development Committee both made use of the venue each year in the weeks leading up to the Notting Hill Carnival featuring bands such as the Mangrove steel band. Despite the injection of considerable energy and goodwill by a wide range of local groups, the Tabernacle had a somewhat hand-to-mouth existence, and in the late 1970s the main hall was still undeveloped, stripped of its seating and not in daily use. During the 1990s The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd rehearsed at the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle reopened after a £4 million refurbishment, featuring a new hall, studios, art gallery