London Borough of Southwark
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The London Borough of Southwark was a London borough. (TV: Father's Day) It contained the districts of Southwark, Bermondsey, (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, The Lie of the Land) Rotherhithe, (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, The Bounty Hunter) Kennington, (PROSE: Rose Tyler) and Peckham. (COMIC: Silver Scream, PROSE: Downtime: Child of the New World, Dalek) Accounts disputed as to whether the Powell Estate was located in Kennington or Peckham. (PROSE: Rose Tyler, Downtime: Child of the New World, Dalek, COMIC: Silver Scream)
Geography
The London Borough of Southwark shared its northern border with the River Thames, across which were both the City of London - to the west - and Tower Hamlets to the east. The borough shared its eastern border with Lewisham, a short length of its southern border with Bromley and its western border with Lambeth. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
The northern part of the borough was the location of several London landmarks including the Globe Theatre, (TV: The Shakespeare Code) the Shard, HMS Belfast and the southernmost landfall of Tower Bridge.[1]
History
On 7 November 1987, Peter Tyler died in a car accident outside St Christopher's Parish Church on the day of the wedding of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark; (TV: Father's Day) this was known to UNIT as a Temporal Event, and they had a brief file, 1987/11-Be3a, on it. (PROSE: Rose Tyler)
The Slitheen craft flew over the London Borough of Southwark on 6 March 2006. It passed over the Powell Estate and narrowly missed Tower Bridge before heading towards the City of London. (TV: Aliens of London)
Southwark was at the forefront in the brief Battle of Canary Wharf between the Cybus Cybermen and the Daleks. Many casualties and much damage occurred across the streets of Southwark. V. J. Ellison commented on the battle at a later date. (PROSE: Terror in the Streets)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] Coldfire Construction put up a new technology block in one of the schools in Southwark. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
Other realities
Pete's World
The London Borough of Southwark also existed in London of Pete's World. Mickey Smith visited his alternate grandmother, Rita-Anne Smith, at 1 Waterton Street in the borough in 2007. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
Behind the scenes
The short story Rose Tyler places the Powell Estate in Kennington, however this was later contradicted by the comic Silver Scream places the estate in Peckham. In the real world, Kennington and Peckham are both parts of the London Borough of Southwark. Similarly, street signs in Father's Day and Rise of the Cybermen display "London Borough of Southwark", providing evidence that locations in the vicinity of the Powell Estate, such as St Christopher's Parish Church and 1 Waterton Street, are located in the borough. Further evidence that the Powell Estate is located in the borough comes from Aliens of London, where the Slitheen craft is shown to fly over Southwark landmarks including London City Hall and HMS Belfast just after having flown over the Powell Estate.
Footnotes
- ↑ By combining the London street map seen in The Lie of the Land, and the various birds-eye view shots of the same area shown throughout the episode, with the map of London boroughs seen in TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, these locations are definitively shown to be located in Southwark.
Notes
- ↑ No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008, and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
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