13 Bannerman Road

13 Bannerman Road was the address of a house in the London suburb of Ealing, and in the late 2000s, the home of Sarah Jane Smith and her adopted son Luke.

Features

The house, architecturally, was of an older classic designed bricked home rather unlike the rest of Bannerman Road which were modern detached houses. It appeared to be smaller on the outside than it actually was on the inside. Inside the house the living room was quite small, with an old television and various objects collected by Sarah Jane Smith during her travels. The attic was the largest room in the house, with a research laboratory and the sentient computer Mr Smith as well as a space-time link to K-9 Mark IV contained within a safe. This version of K-9 had left Earth to stablise a black hole. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)However, he could on occasion, appear in the attic. (SJA: The Lost Boy, DW: Journey's End)

History

After discovering a Xylok unearthed at Krakatoa, Sarah built Mr Smith the computer to house it in the attic. (SJA: The Lost Boy) Later, Maria Jackson and her father Alan moved in nearby. Maria saw Sarah Jane communing with the Star Poet and later got caught up in Sarah's activities involving aliens. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) 13 Bannerman Road served as one of the nodes of the Sub-wave network used to guide the Doctor to Earth after the Daleks had re-located the planet to the Medusa Cascade. (DW: The Stolen Earth)

Other information

• Harriet Jones knew that Sarah Jane Smith lived at this location. (DW: The Stolen Earth)
• Sarah Jane put a key under a flowerpot at the side of the house in order to allow for emergency entry. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
• There are three entrances into Sarah Jane attic. One, which is used most regularly opposite her computer. Another, which is to the left of Mr Smith and the third is in the middle of the seating area and has yet to be used.
• Chrissie Jackson found her way into the house on two occasions (Eye of the Gorgon and The Last Sontaran) and commented that "Some people never learn.

Behind the Scenes

• The location for Bannerman Road is Clinton Road, Penarth, Cardiff. The house used is on the northern corner with Victoria Road (which corners Clinton Road), number 21.
• The name Bannerman Road probably makes makes reference to the Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen.
  

  The Bannerman Road sign outside Sarah Jane's house.
• An error occured in Eye of the Gorgon; the house was seen with unmodified numbers, with 21 rather than 13 seen in the finished episode.

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