Harry Potter of course is pretty much my all-time favorite series of books so I knew I had to see as many of the spots where the films were done at. Although a lot of the actual school scenes were set in Oxford we did as many local London shots as we could.
Below is a picture inside of King's Cross train station at platform 4, this doubled as platform 9 3/4 in all of the Harry Potter movies. It was so neat to see it in person because it does look a lot like the movie.
We then headed across the street to St. Pancras station. The outside of this building was used in both Harry Potter and Bridget Jones' Diary. In Harry Potter this is where Ron's dad's car was parked at when Harry and Ron jumped in it and began to make it fly, since they missed their train to Hogwarts.
In the first Bridget Jones' Diary you see Bridget walking in front of the building and the second movie you see her here to pick her parent's up from the train station.
This is Leadenhall Market. The store fronts here doubled as Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter movies. I could see Harry and Hagrid walking through the streets for the first time and could imagine them looking in the windows at all of the wizarding gadgets.
Also in Leadenhall Market is the Lamb Tavern that doubled as the front of the Leaky Cauldron that Harry and Hagrid enter to have a ginger beer after shopping.
Here is the front of the Australian House. This building doubled as Gringot's Bank in which Harry went to retrieve some of his money in order to buy supplies for school. At one point the Australian House had to be completely blocked off because there were so many tour groups coming through to take pictures, after the first Harry Potter movie was released.
Next time we have time in London I will do an official tour for more of the Harry Potter set locations.
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