13 Bannerman Road

Sarah Jane's Home

13 Bannerman Road was the address of a house in the London suburb of Ealing, and in the early 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.

There were many bookcases in the house. Among the books were: The short stories of H. G. Wells, Rider from Rifle Rock by Gladwell Richardson, The Tumbled House by Winston Graham (SJA: Invasion of the Bane), French cooking, Dan Dare 9: Terra Nova trilogy by Frank Hampson, The Photographer's Library and UNIT Fighting for Humankind by Sarah Jane Smith. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)

The Attic

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 K9 Mark IV contained within a safe. This version of K9 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) Sarah Jane kept a lot of photos in her attic of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Harry Sullivan and K9. There were also old drawings of the TARDIS. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

History

13 Bannerman road was the home of Sarah Jane Smith and her adopted son, Luke who, after discovering a Xylok unearthed at Krakatoa, built Mr Smith the computer above a fake fireplace in the attic. (SJA: The Lost Boy) Later, Maria Jackson and her father Alan across the road, and Maria saw Sarah Jane communing with the Star Poet. The house suffered minor damaged after a Davey, a member of the Bane family was sent to Killed Sarah Jane, resulting the the front door being ripped of its hinges and a couple of banisters damaged. Soon after, 13 Bannerman Road became home to Luke Smith. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) 13 Bannerman Road served as the place were Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria would hunt aliens. 13 Bannerman Road was the place were Alan Jackson was turned to stone by a Gorgon, resulting in an upset Maria. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)

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)

After Maria left for America, the group soon met up with Rani Chandra , who soon found about about Sarah Jane and what she does. (SJA: Day of the Clown). Soon after, Mr Smith showed the group a news report about Martin Trueman, and before they could stop him, they were trapped by Clyde, who had become takeover by Trueman.

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)
• Chrissie Jackson found her way into the house on two occasions through the same window and commented that "Some people never learn." (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon and The Last Sontaran)

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 reference to the Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen.
  

  The Bannerman Road sign outside Sarah Jane's house.
• In Eye of the Gorgon and The Lost Boy, the house was seen with 21 rather than 13 on it. The same error occurs in Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? in which 21 is clearly visible on the brick wall around the house. In "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane" this can be explained by the fact that it's an alternate universe. Sarah Jane's house might not have been number 13 in that universe, as for "Eye of the Gorgon" and "The Lost Boy" perhaps Sarah Jane was doing some re-decorating and brought a new door and forgot to change the number. If she is anything like the Doctor, then it is incredibly likely.

See also

• 13 Bannerman Road - List of Appearances

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