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

[pippin_999]

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> 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.
> 

He might have been working there. Although children were 
moved out of London, many teens found their way back. There 
was a deperate labor shortage in the factories  and orphans 
were routinely put to work at Tom's age in any case. Though I 
prefer to think of Tom skiving off his job and dealing in the black 
market.

Pippin