Vauxhall= ?

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 87498

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

Iris again:

That's what I call a Christmas present. Thanks, Geoff and Carolyn, 
thanks for "Fawkes Hall" and for the griffin. Legge, relegge, labora 
et invenis!
Amicalement,

Iris