Discover London's Notting Hill as it was a hundred years ago, presented in a unique collection of more than 200 images from 'real photo' and printed postcards. Take a visual tour which leads you from the unveiling of the Tube station at Notting Hill to the bustling market stalls of Portobello Road in the Edwardian era. See where the only Jealous man in London was a pub landlord, the Madders sisters had a dancing school, where Napoleon's nephew experimented with poisons and how to find Mrs Memory and Miss Perfect. Follow in the footsteps of Notting Hill's residents all those years ago. Chapters guide you along Notting Hill High Street, Pembridge Road, Kensington Park Road, Ladbroke Grove, Lancaster Road and Westbourne Grove to Portobello Road. With a commentary including quirky facts and coincidences, a small dose of architecture and a sheer delight in the people who don't always make it into the history books, let Hermione Cameron, author and resident, show you Notting Hill Behind The Scenes.

Hermione Cameron's commentary accompanies a unique collection of photographs and postcards and takes a sideways look at this popular London district, unearthing the notable, the quizzical and the amusing in Notting Hill's history.

TIME OUT LONDON "Meet Walter Carter, west London fishmonger, here photographed with his wife, four of his six children and several hundred bloaters, kippers and oysters - a collection that must have made this a particularly pongy part of Portobello Road market. The market sprang up in the 1870s from a horse-trading fair, and was a regular fruit-and-veg market until antiques stalls started appearing after World War II. Carter is just one of Notting Hill's former residents and shopkeepers to appear in a new book of historic photographs of the area. We also liked the picture of a cramped corner shop that went by the name of Marks & Spencer. Whatever happened to them?"