Leaky Cauldren, real location?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 76597

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
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>   From: severusbook4 
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>   I know this is strange, but has anyone who is a resident of 
London, 
>   gone looking for the physical address of the Leaky Cauldren?  
Using 
>   any information JKR used in the book.<<snip>>
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Dawn:
>   The descriptions are probably too vague, so unless there is some 
evidence in an interview or the like, all I could see was that it is 
not too far from a Tube station, but not that close, on a reasonably 
large street comprising of a wide variety shops and facilities.  
Considering that the shops that flank it could well change use as 
well (as in JKR could have been describing her memory of a place, 
which has since changed).  That description could fit dozens of 
places, although I should think it would have to be one of the 
smaller stations, as one of the ones with lots of platforms, miles of 
corridors or more impressive ticket halls would probably have been 
remembered by Harry as it was the first time he'd been on the Tube.  
I mean, we don't even know which side of the river it is on, let 
alone the borough.

Re the comment made by someone about Charing Cross Road, it is not 
exactly a short road. It makes an end-on connection with St.Martin's 
Lane just north of the National Gallery and ends at St.Giles Circus, 
the meeting point with Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford Street.

I am prepared to hazard that it is meant to be on the north side. 
Most of the big shopping streets are on that side of the Thames - 
Oxford Street, Regent Street, Bond Street for example. If you go 
south of the river, you're tending to get into the administrative 
district - Whitehall, Parliament Square etc. The major shopping 
street here is Victoria Street.

I seem to recall that in the film, the shooting location was Borough 
Market, further to the east.

Geoff