Leaky Cauldron, real location? I Know!

[nineve_laguna]

No: HPFGUIDX 76763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nineve_laguna" 
> <nineve_laguna at h...> wrote:
> > I remember, even though cannot say exactly which page, in PS/SS 
that
> > Hagrid and Harry get the train to LONDON BRIDGE, which is south 
of 
> > the river, full of little scruffy non-descriptive shops, back 
> alleys 
> > hidden to public view, and with a pub near it on a main road with 
> > loads of passing-by-fast-but-not-stopping-here trafic. > > London 
Bridge is a most weird place, and it fits in with JKR's 
> > description.
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> 
> Geoff:
> I see no reference to London Bridge in the book. "I 
> don't know how the Muggles manage without magic", he said as they 
> climbed a broken-down escalator which led up to a bustling road 
lined 
> with shops."
> 
> Geoff:
> That isn't London Bridge. The exits from the Tube bring you into 
the 
> main railway station concourse which is a bus station. London 
Bridge 
> is very much a commercial district and there are no major shopping 
> roads immediately by the station. A few line further on...
> "They passed book shops and music stores, hamburger bars and 
> cinemas..."
> 
> I wonder if you are confusing this with the film? I said yesterday 
> that I think I read somewhere that the film location for the Leaky 
> Cauldron was the Borough Market area which /is/ in the area where 
the 
> main railway line to Cannon Street diverges from the Charing Cross-
> London Bridge line.
> 
> Geoff
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I am most definitely NOT confusing it with the film. If you had known 
London Bridge seven years ago, and very well, as I did then, you 
would find that The Leaky Cauldron did indeed have a South London 
feel, and that the shops and businesses around fit in the 
description. Anyway, it doesn't exist, and JKR is not describing a 
place in London, but creating one.
Nineve.