The Pyramid


 * For the triangular prism structure, please see Pyramid.

The Pyramid was the name of a combination coffee shop and book shop that was also a front for a "safe house" for aliens. It was active beginning in mid-1960s, and was still active in 1983.

"The Pyramid" was located on the main street of the small English town of Little Caldwell. It occupied a single two-story building: the coffee shop was downstairs, and the book shop was upstairs. The book shop specialised in books related to the occult, New Age mysticism, and paranormal phenomena (including back issues of "Whos Who and What's That", a Fortean Journal that often referenced events surrounding the Doctor's travels)

Unknown to most, "The Pyramid" was also a safe house for aliens and the temporally-stranded. They were smuggled to Little Caldwell, and generally stayed at "The Pyramid", in its back rooms, until transportation could be arranged to their home planet or era. Generally, this was done by UNIT.

The shop was run by Admiral Isaac Summerfield, himself a temporal refugee from the 26th century. Other employees, as of December 1983, included:
 * M'Kabel, a Tzun male
 * Joel Mintz, a temporal refugee from 1993
 * Ms. Randrianasolo, originally a Spacefleet officer serving under Admiral Summerfield
 * Albinex
 * Graeme the Spatula, a fragment of an Auton