Barnes Common
According to one account, Barbara Wright met Ian Chesterton at a car crash site on Barnes Common shortly before they both met the First Doctor and were transported to Skaro. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"])
By another account, they were already colleagues at Coal Hill School, and met the First Doctor in Totter's Yard. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"}, et al.) The War Doctor only remembered this series of events, but the Barber-Surgeon met another version of the Doctor who told him about Barnes Common. The War Doctor insisted that this alternative encounter "never happened". The Barber-Surgeon replied that "everything's happened somewhere". (AUDIO: The Horror [+]Loading...["The Horror (audio story)"])
In one parallel universe, the First Doctor foresaw both possibilities, using his Possibility Generator, before departing Gallifrey. It also showed him futures where Susan declined to leave with him, averting both timelines, (AUDIO: Auld Mortality [+]Loading...["Auld Mortality (audio story)"]) so that he never met Ian and Barbara. (AUDIO: A Storm of Angels [+]Loading...["A Storm of Angels (audio story)"])
The policeman Bernard Whittam worked and celebrated his last working day there, next to where the Doctor's TARDIS first took the form of a police box. (AUDIO: The Last Day at Work [+]Loading...["The Last Day at Work (audio story)"])
When attempting to use the fast return switch to return Barbara and Ian to Earth in 1963, the First Doctor noted that they wouldn't necessarily end up in Totter's Lane, and might instead end up somewhere else, like Barnes Common. (AUDIO: Return to Skaro [+]Loading...["Return to Skaro (audio story)"])
