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76 Totter's Lane

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76 Totter's Lane (also known as Totter's Yard or Foreman's Yard) was a junkyard in Shoreditch, London. It was also the location of I.M. Foreman's scrapyard where, disguised as a police box, the Doctor's TARDIS resided for approximately five months in 1963.

History

1960s

Susan Foreman, the First Doctor's granddaughter, attended the nearby Coal Hill School during this time, and gave the school the junkyard's address as her home address. This raised suspicion in her teacher, Barbara Wright, who followed Susan home one evening to find the junkyard where a house should have been. Later, Wright and another teacher, Ian Chesterton, entered the scrapyard and discovered the TARDIS sitting in it, leading to their life-changing first encounter with the Doctor. (TV: An Unearthly Child)

Earlier that day, Sarah Jane Smith (then twelve years old) briefly explored the junkyard and saw the TARDIS before returning to her aunt Lavinia. (PROSE: Playtime)

 
A crowd gathers at Foreman's Yard in 1963 after a soldier's death. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

Later in 1963, but much later from the Seventh Doctor's perspective, a battle between a Renegade Dalek and Group Captain Ian Gilmore's Intrusion Countermeasures Group took place there. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

This event more or less inaugurated the beginning of the Shoreditch Incident. Though never stated, it can be assumed that the Dalek went there because the Renegade Daleks knew the TARDIS had earlier landed in that location.
 
The Sixth Doctor, with Peri, returns to Foreman's Yard in 1985. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)

The First Doctor watched a film on the fall of Rome and complained it was historically inaccurate. When asked to leave, he was seen heading back towards the junkyard. (WEB: whoisdoctorwho.co.uk)

1980s

In 1985, the TARDIS returned to the junkyard in response to a distress signal sent by Lytton. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)

1990s

In 1997, the TARDIS landed in the junkyard once more after the Eighth Doctor fell victim to a trap by the Master. Sam Jones entered the junkyard to get away from Baz Bailey and his gang (PROSE: The Eight Doctors).

The junkyard was actually a Gallifreyan space-time event known as I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show (PROSE: Interference - Book Two).

2000s

The Ninth Doctor visited Totters Lane soon after his regeneration, where he encountered Steven Hudson (WEB: whoisdoctorwho.co.uk).

 
The TARDIS parked at Totter's Lane. (GAME: Worlds in Time)

Sometime in an alternate future, the Eleventh Doctor parked the TARDIS there. (GAME: Worlds in Time).

2020s

In October 2021, the Seventh Doctor kept his TARDIS at parking bay number seventy-six of a carpark on Totter's Lane while investigating the Cybermen at St. Gart's Hospital. By this time, Totter's Lane was a commercially zoned area of Shoreditch which was mostly made up of office blocks. (AUDIO: The Harvest)

References

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The Doctor's address appears on his library card. (TV: The Vampires of Venice)

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