13 Bannerman Road

13 Bannerman Road was the address of a house in the London suburb of Ealing, and in the early 2000s, the home of Sarah Jane Smith and her adopted son Luke.



Features
The house, architecturally, was of an older classic designed bricked home rather unlike the rest of Bannerman Road which were modern detached houses. It appeared to be smaller on the outside than it actually was on the inside. Inside the house the living room was quite small, with an old television and various objects collected by Sarah Jane Smith during her travels.

There were many bookcases in the house. Among the books were: The short stories of H.G. Wells, Rider from Rifle Rock by Gladwell Richardson, The Tumbled House by Winston Graham (SJA: Invasion of the Bane), French cooking, Dan Dare 9: Terra Nova trilogy by Frank Hampson, The Photographer's Library and UNIT Fighting for Humankind by Sarah Jane Smith. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)

The Attic
The attic was the largest room in the house, with a research laboratory and the sentient computer Mr Smith as well as a space-time link to K-9 Mark IV contained within a safe. This version of K-9 had left Earth to stablise a black hole. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) However, he could on occasion, appear in the attic. (SJA: The Lost Boy, DW: Journey's End) Sarah Jane kept a lot of photos in her attic of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Harry Sullivan and K-9. There were also old drawings of the TARDIS. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)
 * There are three entrances into Sarah Jane attic. One, which is used most regularly opposite her computer. Another, which is to the left of Mr Smith, which has never been used and the third is in the middle of the seating area and has yet to be used.

History
After discovering a Xylok unearthed at Krakatoa, Sarah built Mr Smith the computer to house it in the attic. (SJA: The Lost Boy) Later, Maria Jackson and her father Alan moved in nearby. Maria saw Sarah Jane communing with the Star Poet and later got caught up in Sarah's activities involving aliens. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) 13 Bannerman Road served as one of the nodes of the Sub-Wave Network used to guide the Doctor to Earth after the Daleks had re-located the planet to the Medusa Cascade. (DW: The Stolen Earth)

Other information

 * Harriet Jones knew that Sarah Jane Smith lived at this location. (DW: The Stolen Earth)
 * Sarah Jane put a key under a flowerpot at the side of the house in order to allow for emergency entry. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
 * Chrissie Jackson found her way into the house on two occasions and commented that "Some people never learn." (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon and The Last Sontaran)
 * It says 21 on her door and she lives at 13

Behind the Scenes

 * The location for Bannerman Road is Clinton Road, Penarth, Cardiff. The house used is on the northern corner with Victoria Road (which corners Clinton Road), number 21.
 * The name Bannerman Road probably makes reference to the Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen.[[Image:Bannerman_road.jpg|thumb|right|272px|The Bannerman Road sign outside Sarah Jane's house.]]
 * An error occured in Eye of the Gorgon and The Lost Boy; the house was seen with unmodified numbers, with 21 rather than 13 seen in the finished episode. This could be accounted to the door being forcibly torn off by the Bane in Invasion of the Bane. Sarah Jane could've replaced the door and not had a chance to change the number.

Appearnaces
See: 13 Bannerman Road - List of Appearances