Leaky Cauldren, real location?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 76641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 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

bboy_mn:
I will always yield to superior knowledge but I have consulted several
maps, both on-line and off, and the only Charing Cross Road I can find
is about 1 kilometer long, and is on the eastern border of the Soho
neighborhood.

Charing Cross Rd is a roughly north/south street that starts out as
Tottenham Court Road, but the name changes when it intersects with
Oxford Street. It then runs south until it is near the bend in the
Thames River, and near Charing Cross Station. Then it crosses Strand
which is an East/West road, the next nearest north/south road is
Whitehall which continues south until the name changes to Parliment
Street.

This intersection of Charing Cross Rd and Oxford St. is less than a
kilometer east of the intersection of Regent Street and Oxford Street.
And, yes, I have been lead to believe that this general Oxford/Regent
area is a famous shopping area in London; also near the theater
district, the famous Soho neighborhood, and not far from St. James
Park, St. James Palace, and Green Park which is the location of
Buckingham Palace.

But then what do I know, I've never been there.

By the way is it Char-ing Cross Rd. as in Charcoal, or is it a long
'A', more like Chair-ing Cross Rd. On the other hand, it could be
Kar-ing Cross or Kare-ing Cross. 

bboy_mn