[HPforGrownups] Re: King's Cross Station

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 78940

On 27 Aug 2003 at 1:14, Wanda Sherratt wrote:

> It's a very interesting point, but how widespread is the knowledge 
> about her being buried at King's Cross Station?  I've heard of 
> Boadicea, but I'd never heard of this detail about her last resting 
> place.  Is this commonly known in Britain?  It could just be a 
> coincidence - I honestly can't see how she could figure into the HP 
> stories.

It's reasonably well known - more commonly known is the tradition that 
Boadicea's last battle took place near the site of King's Cross station. 
Indeed, if you check a map of London, and look just a little north of 
King's Cross station, you'll see Battle Bridge - today it's a road, but 
it was Bridge over the Fleet before the Fleet was built over, and it's 
the traditional site of the battle (it may have been the real site - 
this is a point of some contention among historians but unlike some 
traditional sites, this one is actually possible).

Basically some people assume she died in her last battle and was buried 
at the place she fell - in which case, it's not impossible she could 
have been buried under the current location of King's Cross Station - 
actually pinning it down to a particular platform is not incredibly 
reasonable.

I ran a Harry Potter game based around Boadicea at a roleplaying 
convention at Easter, so looked into all of this then.

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