Another mystery post that I am not quite sure what happened to....As I am getting ready to move its a bit like cleaning out the closet and finding all the lost Christmas presents and 1 random glove. Anyway, before the last Harry Potter movie we went on a tour around London to see all the places that they had used in the first movies, before they had everything built on the movie lot. If you are Harry Potter buff you will probably recognize them all, and if you aren't you probably wont have a clue.
Cecil Court, just off of Charing Cross Road, is the real Diagon Alley.
This is along Scotland Place, and used as the visitors entrance to the Ministry of Magic
Underneath this bridge was the Leaky Cauldron. Exterior shots were done here just around the corner from Borough Market.
The blue door of this opticians was imposed into the previous location as the door of the Leaky Cauldron.
Just around the corner from the blue door is Leadenhall market. Its been around for over 100 years! The market has been used for the exterior shots of Diagon Alley in the movies.
And the last stop and probably the easiest recognised is at King's Cross rail station. It has appeared in every Harry Potter film as it is the starting point on the journey to Hogwarts via the Hogwarts Express which departs from Platform 9 3/4.
They did however need to renumber the actual platforms 4 and 5, as platforms 9 and 10 are not next to each other. I guess the station isn't unhappy with the extra publicity as they graciously installed a platform 9 3/4 for people to take pictures at. There was a 5 minute line just to get a picture taken.
Obviously there is alot of computer work done behind the scene, but was still fun to see, and found some nice places that we would have never known of otherwise.
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