13 Bannerman Road
13 Bannerman Road was the address of a house in the London suburb of Ealing. In the early 21st century, it was the home of Sarah Jane Smith and her adopted children Luke and later Sky
Features
The house, architecturally, was an older, Tudor bricked home rather unlike the rest of Bannerman Road, which were all modern detached houses. Inside, the living room was quite small and held an old television and objects collected by Sarah Jane Smith in her travels.
There were many bookcases in the house. Among the books were:
- The short stories of H. G. Wells [source needed]
- Rider from Rifle Rock by Gladwell Richardson[source needed]
- The Tumbled House by Winston Graham (TV: Invasion of the Bane)
- French cooking[source needed]
- Dan Dare 9: Terra Nova trilogy by Frank Hampson, The Photographer's Library [source needed]
- UNIT Fighting for Humankind by Sarah Jane Smith. (TV: 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 stabilise a black hole. (TV: Invasion of the Bane) The safe became a storage unit for any alien weapon Sarah Jane had acquired after K9 had permanently come out from fixing the Black hole. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith) However, he would on occasion appear in the attic. (TV: The Lost Boy, TV: Journey's End)
Sarah Jane kept a lot of photos in her attic, among them Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Harry Sullivan and K9. There were also old drawings of the TARDIS. (TV: Invasion of the Bane)
Up until September 2010, there 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. (TV: The Nightmare Man)
the Attic also contained a telescope and a chair for which stargazing. (TV: The Last Sontaran)
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. (TV: The Lost Boy) Later, Maria Jackson saw Sarah Jane communing with the Star Poet in the garden of the house.
The house suffered minor damaged after Davey, a member of the Bane family was sent to kill Sarah Jane. The front door was ripped of its hinges and a couple of banisters damaged. Soon after, 13 Bannerman Road became home to Luke Smith. (TV: 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. (TV: 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. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
After Maria left for America, the group met Rani Chandra, who soon found out about Sarah Jane and what she did. (TV: The Day of the Clown)
Other information
- Harriet Jones knew that Sarah Jane Smith lived there. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
- Sarah Jane put a key under a flowerpot at the side of the house to allow for emergency entry. (TV: The Last Sontaran)
- Chrissie Jackson found her way into the house twice through the same window and commented that "Some people never learn." (TV: Eye of the Gorgon and The Last Sontaran)
The Tardis landed here twice
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.
