Leaky Cauldren, real location?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 76672

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
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> > 

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

Sydney:
> That was actually Leadenhall Market, if you're thinking of the 
pretty
> frilly structure Harry and Hagrid walk through just before going 
into
> the Leaky Cauldron in the first movie (I can't remember what the
> exterior was in CoS though).  It's right in the heart of the City,
> about two minutes from Bank.  A much more promising location than
> Charing Cross, there isn't a really nice pub anywhere near there.  I
> assumed Rowling put the entrance to the magical world there,
> symbolically speaking,  because of all the bookshops.  Charing Cross
> is such a loud, modern street, but you can step into one of the
> second-hand shops and be transported away by an old book!
> 
> I did read somewhere that PoA was shooting the Leaky Cauldron scenes
> around the Borough Market, which is quite a gritty location (the
> fabulous gourmet food market aside) with a lot of grim brick railway
> bridges crisscrossing it.
> 


Just picked up on this post after my last reply. I think you're 
right. But if underscores my comments. Leadenhall Market is in the 
same basic area. It's about 10 minutes walk from London Bridge 
Station on the north side of the river, LB station being on the south 
bank, Again, the surroundings are commercial/financial and you don't 
get the shops/cinemas etc. described in the book. I have a strong 
suspicion (i'd have to chase this one up) that the Leaky Cauldron & 
Diagon Alley location filmwise are totally different. But again the 
book is quite vague in some ways.

Geoff