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Perec "Peter" Rachman (16 August 1919 – 29 November 1962) was a Polish-born landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London, England in the 1950s and early 1960s.
28 de feb. de 2024 · One such landlord, Peter Rachman, became notorious in Notting Hill, letting property for extortionate rents and allowing them to drift into neglect.
The Story of Peter Rachman (1920 - 1962) by Gary Powell. Born in Poland, interned by the Germans in 1939 and the Russians in 1940, Peter Rachman had a distinguished Second World War military record fighting as part of the 2nd Polish Corps on behalf of the Allies in the Middle East and Italy; Rachman was transferred to England and demobilised ...
15 de abr. de 2022 · This web page is about the 1958 race riots in West London, not about Peter Rachman, a notorious landlord and politician. The web page uses arrest data and social research to analyze the causes and consequences of the riots.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Economic tensions in the working-class housing market were exacerbated by racial tensions, with large-scale West Indian immigration from the mid-1950s. The scandal associated with the name of Peter Rachman was a product of this crisis, and Rachman has symbolized exploitative landlordism since 1963.
23 de dic. de 2019 · Caryl Phillips explores the life and legacy of Peter Rachman, a Polish-born property developer who became a notorious landlord in postwar Britain. He traces how Rachman was vilified by the media and the public as a symbol of greed and corruption, and how his name became a synonym for exploitation.
22 de oct. de 2012 · Joshua Levine meets Nicholas van Hoogstraten, Mandy Rice-Davies and former tenants in search of infamous landlord Peter Rachman.
