Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Court Road was the London street at whose McDonald's Ace worked as a waitress for a while. (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Loading...["Illegal Alien (novel)"], Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"]) It consisted mostly of electronic shops. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus [+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"], Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion (novelisation)"]) The version that Sam Jones knew had places like a Burger King and a Virgin Megastore, so the place felt alien to her when he arrived there in 1963. (PROSE: The Taint [+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"]) Mel Tyrone was almost always in that Burger King, (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"]) while Ace browsed the Virgin Megastore during much of her free time. (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Loading...["Illegal Alien (novel)"]) In the time period Ace was used to, and indeed many time periods, the road was constantly busy, with really heavy traffic at almost all times. (PROSE: Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"])
Likewise, when Fitz Kreiner went to a London in his relative future, he was baffled by the electronic devices and televisions displayed in shop windows on Tottenham Court Road. (PROSE: Escape Velocity [+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])
It was the location of the Warren Street tube station, (PROSE: The Indestructible Man [+]Loading...["The Indestructible Man (novel)"]) as well as the self-titled Tottenham Court Road station. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Web of Fear [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Web of Fear (novelisation)"], Heart of TARDIS [+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"], Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"], Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"], COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse [+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)"]) The road also housed a police station. (PROSE: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (novel)"])
Hanway Street joined Tottenham and Oxford Street, (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel [+]Loading...["The Quantum Archangel (novel)"], Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"]) although the connection between the two streets was later blocked by 1985. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus [+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"]) Tottenham was near Charing Cross Road. (PROSE: The Hollow Men [+]Loading...["The Hollow Men (novel)"])
History
The street was the home of a little tea shop where Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright first met. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])
Polly Wright traversed Tottenham Court Road during her commute to the Post Office Tower in 1966. (AUDIO: Sleeper Agents [+]Loading...["Sleeper Agents (audio story)"])
In 1968, Professor George Litefoot worked at a bookshop on the road. (AUDIO: The Age of Revolution [+]Loading...["The Age of Revolution (audio story)"])
Jordan Proctor once worked at a building site on Tottenham Court Road. (AUDIO: Hysteria [+]Loading...["Hysteria (audio story)"])
References
Harry Sullivan suggested the street to Chris Grant as a good place from which to steal projection televisions and plasma screens. (PROSE: Millennium Shock [+]Loading...["Millennium Shock (novel)"])
Behind the scenes
Location information
Though it's possible that a real world location doesn't exist in the same geographic space in the Doctor Who universe, such cases are few and far between. Thus, the map to the right is probably a good indicator of the DWU location of Tottenham Court Road.
