Minto Road

Minto Road
Location:	Notting Hill, London
First mentioned in:	Damaged Goods [+]Loading...["Damaged Goods (novel)"]
First appearance:	The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]
Appearances:	PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"] TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"] TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"] TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"] TV: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"]

Minto Road was a road located in Notting Hill, London. It was home to Ruby, Carla and Cherry Sunday, and Mrs Flood.

Geography

Minto Road was located in the W11 postcode district of London. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) Frederick Place was located within its vicinity. (TV: Space Babies ^[+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])

A shop selling Christmas wares closed (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"page":"230","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) and was replaced by Minto Pizza Alla Pala by 2006. This pizza parlour served the whole Notting Hill area. There appeared to be at least fourteen residential flats on the street. 14 Minto Road was located at one end, and around the corner, Hawkins & Co. Estate Agents was located.

Mrs Flood lived at 4 Minto Road. By 2023, the road was a Pay & Display Zone and had a 20MPH speed limit. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

History

By the early 2000s, one shop on the street was a Christmas shop. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"page":"230","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})

In 2006 (TV: The Parting of the Ways ^[+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"], The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"], etc.) Minto Pizza Alla Pala opened, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) taking over the building of the Christmas shop. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"page":"230","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})

In late 2006, Mickey Smith told Jackie Tyler that a new pizza place had opened up on Minto Road and that they delivered to the Powell Estate. (TV: The Parting of the Ways ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":"00:20:08","1":"The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"})

By Christmas Eve 2023, the pizza place was still trading, as a flyer for the business was pinned to the notice board in the Sundays' home. In a cracked timeline created by the goblins, the flyer was on Carla Sunday's fridge, instead of the many photographs of her foster children. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• A Minto Road is mentioned in episode 6 of Davies's 2004 series Mine All Mine, however this Minto Road is in Swansea, the setting of the series, so is hard to reconcile with the Minto Road from Damaged Goods ^[+]Loading...["Damaged Goods (novel)"] and The Parting of the Ways ^[+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"].
• Scenes for Minto Road were filmed in Frederick Place, Clifton, Bristol.