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

[geoff_bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86977

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<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:

<Carolyn's notes snipped heavily in places>

Carolyn:
> As the person who originally started this thread in message 86517, 
I 
> am stunned at the things which have been dug up (quite literally) 
in 
> the Riddle diary investigation. 

> With the outbreak of World War II ......

>......the authorities made every effort to get children out of 
> London during the war, and certainly an official children's home of 
> good standing, such as this orphanage, would have been one of the 
> first to be cleared. I'm afraid Tom Riddle could not have been 
living 
> there after the outbreak of war in 1939.


Geoff:
Which raises the additional point of how Tom got hold of a diary from 
Vauxhall Road in 1942.


Carolyn:
> 3. Also, in support of my point that this area of London was very 
> badly damaged in the war, and was a major target for the bombers, I 
> found these two comments:  
> 
> - Vauxhall, Kennington and the Blitz. About 2,500 bombs and rockets 
> fell on Lambeth during the Second World War, many of them in 
Vauxhall 
> in an attempt to hit the railways and the Thames bridges. 
> 
> - Vauxhall Bridge Road was constructed in 1816 as an approach to 
the 
> new Vauxhall Bridge. Only a few of the original properties remain. 
> (these comments are on: http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/)


Geoff:
There is a point here that Vauxhall Bridge Road is /not/ in Vauxhall 
(which is in the Borough of Lambeth). It is north of the river and in 
the City of Westminster. That side of the river did not get so much 
danage - I knew the area well from the early 1950s. There was a lot 
of redevelopment on the South Bank because of bomb damage - the 
Festival of Britain site was out there in 1951 for example. Much of 
the redevelopment in that area is later.

Geoff