The Napoleon of Notting Hill 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 described in any detail, but apparently content to operate through a figurehead king, randomly chosen. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares
Notting Hill, Victoria Primary School was constructed in mid 1970's to replace the largely portable classroom Notting Hill Primary School. From the early 1960s Monash University has adjoined the southern boundary of Notting Hill, and in the 1970s the Rusden Teachers College (later a Campus of Deakin University) was built on the eastern boundary of the estate. The Notting Hill Hotel remains a prominent landmark, being established in 1891; it is frequented by nearby university students and locals of Notting Hill. The owner, Kath Byer, ran the establishment until her death on 15 November 2010 and did so since 1936 when she bought