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According to one account, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and [[Jackie Tyler]] lived in a [[Powell Estate|council estate]] in '''Kennington''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose Tyler (short story)|Rose Tyler]]'') in the [[London Borough of Southwark]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'') however other accounts placed the Powell Estate in [[Peckham]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Silver Scream (comic story)|Silver Scream]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)|Downtime: Child of the New World]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghosts (DWR audio story)|Ghosts]]'') | According to one account, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and [[Jackie Tyler]] lived in a [[Powell Estate|council estate]] in '''Kennington''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose Tyler (short story)|Rose Tyler]]'') in the [[London Borough of Southwark]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'') however other accounts placed the Powell Estate in [[Peckham]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Silver Scream (comic story)|Silver Scream]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)|Downtime: Child of the New World]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghosts (DWR audio story)|Ghosts]]'') | ||
[[restaurant (Rose)|The restaurant]] the [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|duplicate of Mickey Smith]] took [[Rose Tyler]] to in [[March]] [[2005]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') was located in Kennington. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre]]'') | |||
In mid-[[2006]], after the [[Northern line|Northern]] and [[Jubilee line|Jubilee London Underground lines]] began to be refurbished, an exponential quantity of still-active [[Schlechter Wolf|Schlechter Wolves]] were excavated in [[Bow, London|Bow]], [[Pimlico]], Kennington in [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)|Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings]]'') | In mid-[[2006]], after the [[Northern line|Northern]] and [[Jubilee line|Jubilee London Underground lines]] began to be refurbished, an exponential quantity of still-active [[Schlechter Wolf|Schlechter Wolves]] were excavated in [[Bow, London|Bow]], [[Pimlico]], Kennington in [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)|Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
While | While the short story ''[[Rose Tyler (short story)|Rose Tyler]]'' was the first story to give a explicit location for the Powell Estate, scenes in the television episode ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'' evidently depicted the Powell Estate being located in Kennington, specifically in a 1:1 location to its real world filming location, the Brandon Estate, located in Kennington.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080108080227/https://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/brandonestate Brandon Estate on Doctor Who Locations via the Wayback Machine]</ref> Kennington is situated along the border of {{w|London Borough of Lambeth}} and the London Borough of Southwark, and the estate's location in the London Borough of Southwark was also evident from [[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]''. | ||
Thus, choosing a location that both aligns with the real world and the [[DWU]] logically makes sense. However, it was later established in | Thus, choosing a location that both aligns with the real world and the [[DWU]] logically makes sense. However, it was later established in comic strip ''[[Silver Scream (comic story)|Silver Scream]]'' that the Powell Estate was located in Peckham, which has been seemingly accepted by every story that came out after it, which creates irreconcilable discrepancies with stories such as ''Aliens of London'', where various shots would be impossible if the Powell Estate was located in Peckham. | ||
Furthermore, [[Doctor Who website|the BBC's webpage on ''Doctor Who'']] from 2005 states that Rose is from SE15, which is Peckham's postcode, whereas the postcode for Kennington is primarily SE11.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050323031920/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ ''Doctor Who'' on bbc.co.uk via the Wayback Machine]</ref> Additionally, | Furthermore, [[Doctor Who website|the BBC's webpage on ''Doctor Who'']] from 2005 states that Rose is from SE15, which is Peckham's postcode, whereas the postcode for Kennington is primarily SE11.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050323031920/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ ''Doctor Who'' on bbc.co.uk via the Wayback Machine]</ref> Additionally, the short story ''[[Meet Rose (short story)|Meet Rose]]'' gives "SE15 7GO" as her postcode, while the television episode ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' gives "SU15 7GO", both fictionalised versions of the assumed postcode. | ||
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