The Shard
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The Shard was a London skyscraper used by the Great Intelligence as their base by 2013. (TV: The Bells of Saint John [+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"], PROSE: Twenty-First-Century London [+]Loading...{"page":"28","1":"Twenty-First-Century London (feature)"}) It was located in Southwark.[nb 1]
History
The Shard was built between the mid-2000s and the early 2010s. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], TV: The Bells of Saint John [+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"])
By 2013, Rosemary Kizlet and her group used it as their headquarters. A Spoonhead hacked into by the Eleventh Doctor drove an anti-gravity motorbike up its side. Once UNIT took control of the Shard, the Great Intelligence ordered Kizlet to erase the memories of the organisation, returning them to their "factory settings". (TV: The Bells of Saint John [+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"])
When the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald arrived in London during the Hyperion invasion of 2015, the Doctor proved to Clara that they were in her own time by pointing out the Gherkin and the Shard. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire [+]Loading...["The Hyperion Empire (comic story)"])
Footnotes
Notes
- ↑ The map in the The Lie of the Land shows Southwark Crown Court to be on the south embankment of the River Thames, directly beside HMS Belfast. When a birds-eye view of the same area of London is shown later in the same episode, the Shard can be seen between HMS Belfast and Southwark Bridge, definitively placing it in Southwark.
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