Victoria Grove

Victoria Grove is identified as the home and centre of operations of Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer. Its significance lies in the contrast between that fixed base and the pair’s restless movement through a wider area, where their reputation as nimble burglars followed them.

Home and Operating Base

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer made their home in Victoria Grove, which the narration also presents as their centre of operations. The wording makes the street a point of departure and return, rather than the limit of their activity: they were described as incurably given to roving. They had no regular occupation, and their effectiveness as cat-burglars and at smash-and-grab thefts gives their home base a practical connection to their exploits without confining those exploits to the street itself.

A Reputation Beyond the Street

The pair were well known not only in Victoria Grove but also in Cornwall Gardens, Launceston Place, and Kensington Square. Their extensive reputation thus reaches across several named locations, while the account gives no comparable detail about the places themselves. Victoria Grove stands out specifically as their home and operational centre amid this broader circuit of recognition.

The Location’s Narrative Role

The street anchors a portrait built around mobility: Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a settled home, but are not settled in their habits. Their base lends a definite address to a pair otherwise characterized by roaming, while the surrounding list of places conveys the reach of their notoriety. The location is therefore defined less through its physical features than through its relation to the pair’s home life, lack of regular work, and itinerant criminal activity.