13 Bannerman Road
13 Bannerman Road was the address of a house in the London suburb of Ealing. In the early 2000s, it was the home of Sarah Jane Smith and her adopted son Luke.
Features
The house, architecturally, was an older, Tudor 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. The living room was quite small, It held 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 in a safe. This version of K9 had left Earth to stablise a black hole. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) However, he would 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) Up until September 2010, ithere was a pillar in the middle. After this time, the top had been removed and it had become a stand on which alien objects could be placed for Mr. Smith to scan. (SJA: The Nightmare Man)
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 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 kill 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 headquarters from where Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria would hunt aliens. There, Alan Jackson was turned to stone by a Gorgon. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)
The attic served as one of the nodes of the Sub-Wave Network used to guide the Tenth 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 Rani Chandra , who soon found about about Sarah Jane and what she did. (SJA: Day of the Clown).
Other information
- Harriet Jones knew that Sarah Jane Smith lived there. (DW: The Stolen Earth)
- Sarah Jane put a key under a flowerpot at the side of the house 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 shooting 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. [1]
- In 1987, Doctor Who a story aired titled Delta and the Bannermen.
- 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.
