[HPforGrownups] Re: Vauxhall Road - again

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 89410

On 22 Jan 2004 at 21:06, a_reader2003 wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> > Some of you with long memories going back at least six weeks <g> 
> will 
> > recall a long thread on Vauxhall Road ..
> 
> Carolyn:
> So ! The investigation continues ! However, I think that at some 
> point we have to ask ourselves whether JKR did any of the digging 
> that we have, and if so, to what purpose.. is there a clue there for 
> us to find or not ?
> 
> Did she deliberately find a road that used to be called something 
> else just to conclusively link Tom Riddle to the Stockwell orphanage 
> or not ?

It's *very* hard to say. Personally I doubt there's any important 
clue there - but I think it's certainly possible she might have 
known about the existence of an orphanage in that vicinity, and so 
decided to use that as a place to stick Tom Riddle.

I have a book of street maps of London from 1964 - a considerable 
length of time after the Stockwell Orphanage closed it's doors. 
It's still on the map - it's still marked as an orphanage.

None of the other older orphanages of London I know about are 
marked on the maps that I can see in this book. Which suggests to 
me that common knowledge of this orphanage persisted longer than 
many others.

While I doubt JKR put a vast amount of thought into this, I can see 
here at least looking for a location somewhere near an orphanage to 
stick Tom Riddle. It seems possible.








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