Vauxhall Road and the Elixir of Life ( was The Diary (just where did V get

[linocow2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 86721

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

> This raises a problem. Consulting my worthy and trusted A to Z of 
> London (1995 edition), there is no Vauxhall Road listed. 

<snip>

> Side issue, I couldn't get the URLs to work. The first section gets 
> you into the Victorian Web OK but then the links break down.
> 
> Geoff

 Now me:

Sorry to have snipped terrible pun (!) but recent post got returned
for 
insufficient snipping, so am being v officious.

Couldn't find Vauxhall Road in A to Z either, and there was also no
reference 
to it in a "Lost London Streets" website (http://m
embers.aol.com/WHall95037/
london.html - hope it works). BUT on the Victorian London Streets A-Z
site -   
http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/lon-str.html - there are references to:

Vauxhall Road, St Andrew, ST GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE [1862]
Vauxhall Road, St Mary the Less, LAMBETH [1862]
Vauxhall Road, St Peter, LAMBETH [1862]
Vauxhall Road, St Peter, Pimlico, ST GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE [1862]
Vauxhall Road, St Stephen, ST GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE [1862]

So looks like there were two streets (one nowhere near Vauxhall), but
am 
none the wiser as to when they disappeared...

But am inclined to think now that the reference to Vauxhall Road has
more to 
do with the spooky Phiz illustration to "The Elixir of Life" than any
actual road. 
If JK found this image while doing research on witchcraft/the elixir
of life, I can 
imagine the title might have stuck in her mind. Don't know why the
URL I gave 
isn't working - try searching for "Vauxhall Road Phiz" in Google and
you 
should get straight to the image.

Linocow