Shoreditch Shoreditch was a district of London , located within the borough of Hackney . Coal Hill was located in Shoreditch . Geography . Shoreditch was the location of Coal Hill School , ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) which later became Coal Hill Academy . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) The district also had a library . ( TV : " The Vampires of Venice " ) A junk yard belonging to an I . M . Foreman was located at 76 Totter ' s Lane . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) Streets in Shoreditch included Coal Hill Road , ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) Foreman Street , ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , " Nightvisiting " ) Great Eastern Street , ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) Hinchcliffe Avenue , ( COMIC : " The Fractures " ) Leonard Street , ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) Shoreditch High Street , ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " , " Joyride " ) Swallow Avenue , ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) Totter ' s Lane ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) and Wellington Road . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) Inhabitants . Madame Zelda was from Shoreditch , ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) while the First Doctor and his granddaughter , Susan Foreman , lived in the I . M . Foreman junk yard in 1963 . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) Clara Oswald lived in a flat in Shoreditch while she worked at Coal Hill School . ( COMIC : " Clara Oswald and the School of Death " ) While attending the same school , Andrea Quill and Charlie Smith lived at 1 Wellington Road , where they were later joined by Matteusz Andrzejewski . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) History . 20th century . 1963 . The First Doctor and his granddaughter , Susan Foreman , arrived in their TARDIS " circa " May 1963 , in the I . M . Foreman junk yard , at 76 Totter ' s Lane . The Doctor was in possession of the Hand of Omega . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) Susan posed as a human teenager and enrolled in the Coal Hill School , ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) and the Doctor facilitated his own studies by registering at the local library . ( TV : " The Vampires of Venice " ) The two Time Lord s and their TARDIS ' sensors were oblivious to the arrival of two adversarial factions of Dalek s and of their preparations for battle . The Doctor took advantage of the Hand of Omega ' s casket - like appearance , consigning it to an undertaker in preparation for burial , sometime not long before 21 November . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) Also in November , Lavinia Smith purchased sweets for her niece Sarah Jane Smith at a Shoreditch shop adjacent to the junk yard . Sarah Jane ventured into the yard and noticed the TARDIS ' police box appearance ; as the Smiths walked along the street thereafter , Sarah Jane saw Susan enter the police box . ( PROSE : " Playtime " ) One evening , two of Susan ' s teachers , Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright followed her into the junk yard . Thinking that she was being held captive , the pair forced their way past the Doctor and into the TARDIS . The Doctor de - materialised the TARDIS with his three passengers , lest they be discovered by the police . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) The Seventh Doctor returned to Shoreditch on 29 November 1963 , accompanied by Ace . The pair arrived just in time to protect humanity from the 22 - 30 November battle between Imperial Dalek and Renegade Dalek factions in the Dalek Civil War , an event which later became known as the Shoreditch Incident . While there , the Doctor participated in the " funeral " for the Hand of Omega . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) 1966 . After defeating WOTAN on 20 July 1966 , the First Doctor returned to check that the Hand of Omega had been buried in November 1963 as per his instructions , only to discover that it had been removed . He determined that his future self had arrived at an earlier point to deal with it . ( PROSE : " The Rag & Bone Man ' s Story " ) 1985 . In the course of trying to change Halley ' s Comet ' s trajectory and cause it to impact Earth , the Cybermen established a command post in a Shoreditch sewer in 1985 . Meanwhile , the mercenary Gustave Lytton was posing as a jewel thief in order to recruit criminals to free Telos from the Cybermen . The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown arrived in the TARDIS which appeared as ornate furniture and as a pipe organ , and defeated the Cybermen . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) 21st century . 2013 . While travelling as a companion of the Eleventh Doctor , Clara Oswald moved to Shoreditch and became a teacher at Coal Hill School . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) She continued to work there after his regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor . ( TV : " Into the Dalek " ) 2014 . By 2014 , the Doctor ' s repeated visits to the Shoreditch area of London had left high levels of artron energy , particularly around Coal Hill School . This caused the creation of localised space - time rift s . ( TV : " The Caretaker " , et al . ) On one occasion , the Doctor had discovered that a Skovox Blitzer , a dangerous robot killing machine , was trapped in Shoreditch , having killed at least one local policeman . With the help of Clara as well as her fellow teacher and boyfriend , Danny Pink , the Doctor managed to neutralise the threat and return the Skovox Blitzer to space . ( TV : " The Caretaker " ) 2016 . In spring , the Barbara Wright Building was built as part of the Coal Hill Academy renovation project . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) In October , the trunk of the Lankin emerged through a space - time rift . It attempted to feast on grief - stricken residents of Shoreditch by camouflaging it ' s branches as images of their loved ones . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) The following month , killer petal s gathered in Shoreditch and thrived on the flesh of local wildlife and residents . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) They were later destroyed by the Shadow Kin . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) Later history . Towards the end of the 21st century , Coal Hill was converted into a block of flats . The building more or less survived the first Dalek invasion of 22nd century , but it was not made habitable again until following the second invasion in the 2190s , ( AUDIO : " Lucie Miller " / " To the Death " ) when Susan Foreman moved in , eager to take the opportunity to make a new home in that " lovely old building . " The Eighth Doctor came to Shoreditch to intercept Hypercube messages which were being sent by the Time Lord s . He was , however , ultimately unable to stop Susan from answering and accepting their request to aid them in their war against the Daleks , with a TARDIS arriving to pick her up . ( AUDIO : " All Hands on Deck " ) Behind the scenes . The website whoisdoctorwho . co . uk had a list of sightings of the Doctor from which people had ostensibly been submitting to Clive Finch , a conspiracy theorist character from " Rose " . A submission from Steven Hudson claimed that Steven saw the Doctor " a couple a years ago " [ sic ] wearing an Edwardian outfit , rather than his usual leather jacket , but still the individual in Clive ' s photographs — the Ninth Doctor . He saw the Doctor wandering around a building development on Totter ' s Lane . According to Steven , he was muttering , " They ' re all gone , I ' m the only one left " , alluding to the Doctor ' s involvement in the Last Great Time War .