Portobello Road, London
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Portobello Road is a street in Notting Hill, within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It goes in an north-south direction from the junction with Wornington Road in the north to the junction with Pembridge Road in the south.
Portobello Road is probably best known among Londoners for the Portobello Road Market, a street market that is held every Saturday. It is a place to look for second-hand clothes and other items.
 Portobello Road Market Author: Rosalind Mitchell (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic)
Portobello Road was named to commemorate the victory of Admiral Edward Vernon in attacking and capturing the Spanish town of Portobelo, Panama, in 1739, in the War of Jenkins' Ear between Great Britain and Spain. The war was named after Robert Jenkins, the captain of the British ship who exhibited in Parliament his ear severed by the Spanish coast guards in 1731.
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