Westminster
Westminster was a city in central London containing Parliament's Palace of Westminster & Big Ben, Parliament Square, Whitehall, the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column, Buckingham Palace, Royal Albert Hall, the Savoy Hotel, Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Madame Tussauds wax museum, the offices of The Strand magazine, and other landmarks.
In the 13th century, a Rutan ship containing two doomsday weapons that could annihilate the Sontarans collided with the TARDIS, causing it crash into the future site of Parliament. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)
Clara Oswald was allegedly born behind the face of Big Ben on 23 November 1866. She claimed that it accounted for her impeccable sense of time. (TV: The Snowmen)
In 1605, the Eleventh Doctor moved the Palace of Westminster safely into orbit, allowing the Rutan Lady Elizabeth Winters' ship to take off. The Doctor rendered Lady Winters' weapons useless, and returned Parliament to its rightful place. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)
Rory Williams and Amy Pond were delivered to the Westminster's Savoy Hotel by their son-in-law, the Eleventh Doctor, on 26 June 1890, their -116th wedding anniversary. They discovered that the new hotel was constructed over a Zygon spaceship and half of the staff were impostors. The trio thwarted the Zygons. (TV: The Power of Three)
Six months later, The Strand entered publication in Westminster. From the start, the magazine featured Arthur Conan Doyle's serialised stories of Sherlock Holmes, which many suspected were Doyle's appropriation of the rumoured exploits of the mysterious Madame Vastra and her colleagues. (TV: The Snowmen; PROSE: The Bodysnatcher)
Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright went sightseeing through Westminster upon their return to London in 1965. (TV: The Chase)
Auto Plastics delivered plastic replicas of senior British civil servants and military officers to Madame Tussauds in 1970. The figures were actually autons which came to life, walking out of the wax museum and taking the place of their subjects in order to facilitate the Nestene Consciousness' attempted takeover of Earth. Also delivered was Major General Scobie in suspended animation, his replica having already unseated him. The Third Doctor and Liz Shaw visited Madame Tussauds in the course of their investigation. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
The nucleus of the March 2006 Slitheen invasion was in Westminster, with their ship destroying Big Ben and Slitheen impostors taking over the government at 10 Downing Street. Harriet Jones called in an airstrike on her own position with the help of Mickey Smith, obliterating Downing Street. (TV: Aliens of London/World War Three)
On Christmas 2007, the inter-stellar cruise ship, Titanic plummeted toward Westminster, but the Tenth Doctor and his aides pulled the ship out of her dive at the last instant. (TV: Voyage of the Damned). In an alternate timeline in which the Doctor was already dead, Westminster was the epicenter of a thermonuclear explosion when the ship indeed crashed. (TV: Turn Left)
In May 2008, the Master seized control of the government in Westminster when, in his guise as Harold Saxon, he was appointed Prime Minster, and immediately murdered his cabinet. (TV: The Sound of Drums).
After a wave of mysterious cubes arrived on Earth, hundreds of them could be seen outside Westminster. (TV: The Power of Three)
Barbara Wright, Jenny, and Dortmun evaded Daleks patrols in Westminster c. 2167. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
Ten or more millennia after the 30th century, Sontaran Field Major Styre landed in the desolate landscape that had been Westminster. Using his robot, he conducted experiments on GalSec astronauts in order to analyse human physiology. The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan serendipitously teleported down to where Piccadilly had run, in order to inspect and repair the Transmat spheres for Space Station Nerva. While the Doctor performed the repairs, Sarah Jane and Harry explored the gorge that had once been Trafalgar Square. Harry fell into the crevasse and the Doctor was captured by before he too fell into the gully. Sarah Jane and the astronauts were captured by the robot and taken to Styre. Harry and the Doctor rescued them and killed Styre. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)
See also places in Westminster
- Trafalgar Square
- The Palace of Westminster
- 10 Downing Street
- Whitehall
- Buckingham Palace
- Royal Albert Hall
- Savoy Hotel
- Madame Tussauds
- The Strand magazine's offices
Behind the scenes
- According to Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, originally in TV: The Stolen Earth or Journey's End, Prime Minister Fairchild was to have been exterminated by the Daleks at Westminster.
- According to non-narrative material in DWBIT 1, Westminister was one of the forefronts of the Dalek's invasion in the 22nd century. A Dalek Saucer attacked London. The British government put all their best defences into battle against them, sending the Air Force's helicopters and fighters to attack the Dalek ship. Tanks fought across the streets, and the Navy fought with gunboats. The humans were persistent, destroying many Daleks, but in a matter of days the Daleks subjugated the humans.
