Way OT: 12 Grimmauld Place Appearance?

[Maureen]

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bboyminn:
> I'm wondering how other people pictured 12 Grimmauld Place and
> Grimmauld Square in general.

Having lived in North London for a while, not that far north from where 
I pictured Grimmauld Place to be, I imagined it to be similar to the 
streets I walked down every day.  They were a mixture of terraced houses 
(row houses?) and semi detached town houses gorgeous in their time, but 
which had mostly been converted into flats.  A bit shabby, a bit run 
down, a place where people stay for a year or two, rather than plan to 
live and put down roots. They had originally been painted in light 
colours, but were now looking a bit grubby, gardens neglected, cracked 
paving stones....  Some might only be 2 storeys high, others, like the 
block I lived in, were about 5.

Use google image search, and have a look for places like Finsbury Park, 
Kings Cross, Grays Inn Road, Euston and Pentonville Road.  For some 
reason, Imageshack is throwing up errors at me this morning, or I'd post 
them myself!

Maureen