Vauxhall= ?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87493

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "iris_ft" <iris_ft at y...> wrote:

Iris: 
> Okay, what is following is probably completely irrelevant. However 
> I'd like to know whether it has been debated yet. Here it is.
> I've been reading several messages from the thread concerning the 
> source of Tom Riddle's diary. As I don't live in Great Britain, I 
> don't know London, and I wanted to see where Vauxhall was, I wanted 
> to get some information concerning that area. My Copernic searching 
> engine provided me with 68 results, most of them dealing with 
> Vauxhall Motors. I visited the official website of the firm (though 
> I don't have a particular interest in cars), and I discovered that 
> the emblem of Vauxhall is a griffin. If I remember well, the firm 
is 
> also called "the griffin house".
> So that's my question; forgive me if it is off-topic, or if there's 
> yet an answer in the archives: that "Vauxhall road" on the back of 
> the diary, is it only a reference to a location? Could it be also 
an 
> allusion to that griffin emblem, a kind of a joke based on the 
> association of a name and a symbol? Tom Riddle, heir to Slytherin, 
> consigned his sixteen years- old self memory in a small book that 
> holds the same name as "the griffin house"
 I don't know what to 
> think of it, and I'd be glad to read your opinions.
> 

Geoff:
The district of Vauxhall is in Central London. It lies on the south 
bank of the Thames about a mile upstream from Westminster and the 
Houses of Parliament and is also the first station on the main line 
out of Waterloo to the South.

Vauxhall Motors are based in Luton, about 50 miles north of London 
producing Vauxhall cars and Bedford trucks but...... wait for it....
Carolyn turned up links between Vauxhall in London and the Luton 
situation which also drew in the griffin. Her research is revealed in 
message 86957 which is of great interest in the Vauxhall Road debate.

Geoff