76 Totter ' s Lane 76 Totter ' s Lane ( also known as Totter ' s Yard or Foreman ' s Yard ) was a junkyard in Shoreditch , London , ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) owned by I . M . Foreman . The Doctor ' s TARDIS , disguised as a police box , resided there for approximately five months in 1963 . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) It was close to Piccadilly Circus . ( GAME : " Dalek Attack " ) History . 1960s . The junkyard was one of the forms assumed by the complex space - time event I . M . Foreman ' s One - Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show , which travelled the universe and assumed new appearances on each planet , " shedding " these forms as it moved on . The show spent a few months on Earth in early 1963 before it moved on , the junkyard and its passing creating a " dent " in space - time that attracted the First Doctor to the junkyard . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) In 1963 , Susan Foreman , the First Doctor ' s granddaughter , attended the nearby Coal Hill School , and gave the school the junkyard ' s address as her home address . This raised suspicion in her teacher , Barbara Wright , who followed Susan home one evening to find the junkyard where a house should have been . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " , TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) On 22 November 1963 , Sarah Jane Smith briefly explored the junkyard and saw the TARDIS before returning to her Aunt Lavinia . ( PROSE : " Playtime " ) Later , Barbara and another teacher , Ian Chesterton , followed Susan home again and entered the junkyard and discovered the TARDIS sitting in it . Hearing Susan ' s voice inside the TARDIS , Ian and Barbara went inside . Knowing that his ship couldn ' t be found out , the First Doctor kidnapped Ian and Barbara in the TARDIS , taking Susan away from the 20th century against her wishes . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) The next day , the Fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II returned to Totter ' s Lane to retrieve a Heshrax insect which he had been tracking the day that he left . While there , they met Debbie , Susan ' s best friend from Coal Hill School . Debbie , who turned fifteen that day , was concerned about Susan ' s sudden disappearance as she knew that Susan would never miss her birthday . She had met the First Doctor on one occasion , but the Fourth Doctor did not recall seeing her before . He also did not remember Susan ever mentioning Debbie , but admitted that he was not always the best listener . The Doctor offered Debbie the chance to travel with him , telling her that he could show her the crystal temples of Canopus or the signing of the Magna Carta in June 1215 but she declined the opportunity . He told Debbie that Susan decided to stay on 22nd century Earth but then amended this by adding that he chose for her , expressing the hope that this decision was for the best . For her birthday , he gave Debbie a framed black and white photograph of Ian and Barbara standing by a police box , waving at the camera and hugging each other . The frame contained a plaque that read simply " 1965 " . Debbie was thankful that she met the Doctor as , while she knew that she would never see Susan again , she could at least live her life safe in the knowledge that she was safe in the future rather than spend it wondering what happened to Susan and fearing the worst . ( PROSE : " Those Left Behind " ) Several days later , a battle between a Renegade Dalek and Group Captain Ian Gilmore ' s Intrusion Countermeasures Group took place there . It was witnessed by the Seventh Doctor and Ace . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) Shortly before this , a time disruption had briefly changed history so that the name on the gates said " I M Forman " . The Seventh Doctor and Ace later returned here , eighteen minutes before their past selves had arrived , to confirm that the spelling had changed . ( PROSE : " The Algebra of Ice " ) In December , Joseph Galloway , a rag and bone man , was hired by Hawkins , who had rented the junkyard to the Doctor , to clear out the place . While cleaning out the junkyard , Galloway found the Blessing Star in the place where Susan had hid it , and it began bringing him luck . ( PROSE : " The Rag & Bone Man ' s Story " ) In 1966 , the First Doctor returned to Totter ' s Lane when the TARDIS once again materialised there . ( AUDIO : " The Perpetual Bond " ) 1980s . In 1985 , the TARDIS returned to the junkyard in response to a distress signal sent by Lytton . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) 1990s . In 1997 , the TARDIS landed in the junkyard once more after the Eighth Doctor fell victim to a trap by the Master that erased his memory ; subconsciously aided by Rassilon , the Doctor was attempting to visit his first incarnation to regain his lost memory , but he entered the wrong temporal coordinates . Sam Jones entered the junkyard to get away from Baz Bailey and his gang , who were swiftly driven off by the Doctor , although he was then taken into custody by police under suspicion of being Baz ' s supplier . When the Doctor and Sam returned to the junkyard — Sam looking for the Doctor while the Doctor was trying to escape Baz — the Doctor briefly left Sam at Baz ' s mercy when he returned to the TARDIS , but after regaining his memories he was sent back to the junkyard by Rassilon at almost the exact moment after he left it , where he defeated Baz and left him for the police , Sam diving into the TARDIS before he could leave and swiftly becoming his new companion . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) 21st century . The junkyard still existed in 2013 . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) In October 2021 , the Seventh Doctor kept his TARDIS at parking bay number seventy - six of a carpark on Totter ' s Lane while investigating the Cybermen at St Gart ' s Brookside Hospital . By this time , Totter ' s Lane was a commercially zoned area of Shoreditch which was mostly made up of office blocks . ( AUDIO : " The Harvest " ) 23rd century . By 2254 , a pub called " The Red Lion " had been built at 76 Totter ' s Lane . The Seventh Doctor walked past the pub when he defeated the Dalek s in London . ( GAME : " Dalek Attack " ) Alternate timeline . After he was attacked by one of the Valeyard ' s golem s , the Seventh Doctor attempted to travel back to the junkyard to leave Ace with his past self for safety while he went to face his foe , remembering the yard as the last place where he tried to settle down , but this plan failed as he arrived in the alternate timeline created by the Valeyard ' s use of the Dark Matrix , the junkyard containing no trace of the First Doctor ' s TARDIS and the Doctor ' s old keys not opening it , forcing him and Ace to flee when they were attacked by Jacksprite s . ( PROSE : " Matrix " ) When the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history , they attacked the First Doctor on the day that he was supposed to leave Earth with Susan , Ian , and Barbara . ( COMIC : " " ) References . Before going to Logopolis in 1981 , the Fourth Doctor and Adric discussed the chameleon circuit being " stuck in Totter ' s Yard " . ( TV : " Logopolis " ) In 1580 , the Eleventh Doctor showed a group of " vampires " his library card in place of his psychic paper . The library card listed 76 Totter ' s Lane as his residence . ( TV : " The Vampires of Venice " ) Behind the scenes . whoisdoctorwho . co . uk . 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 an 81 - year - old Mrs . Smith mentions her working as an usherette at the Ritz Cinema in Totter ' s Lane , which was later demolished and turned into flats . In 1963 , she encountered a version of the Doctor with white hair , and a younger girl Mrs . Smith presumed was his granddaughter . While watching a film on the fall of Rome at the cinema , she recalled the Doctor continuously tutting and muttering that it wasn ' t historically accurate . She " gave him a piece of [ her ] mind and sent him packing " . He stormed towards the old junkyard and she never saw from him again . She presumed Clive ' s Doctor posted on the website , the Ninth Doctor , was some sort of relation , rather than another incarnation like the first . A submission from Steven Hudson claimed that he 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 .