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Demolished Locations

"You think it'll last forever, people and cars and concrete, but it won't. One day it's all gone."

This list covers the filming locations of Doctor Who that have been demolished or dramatically altered

(This list is ongoing and unfinished)

Studios
Lime Grove Studio D & G

Various Studio Recordings

(Pilot Episode - The Space Pirates)

Filmed: 1963-1969

Status: Demolished (1993)

Riverside Studio 1

Various Studio Recordings

(The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Wheel in Space)

Filmed: 1964 - 1968

Status: Redeveloped (2014)

TVC Studios 4 - 8

Various Studio Recordings

(The Aztecs - Ghostlight)

Filmed: 1964 - 1989

Status: Demolished (2015)

TVC Puppet Theatre
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Various Film Inserts

(The Tomb of the Cybermen - Pyramids of Mars)

Filmed: 1967-1975

Status: Demolished (2015)

Pebble Mill

Horror of Fang Rock

Filmed: 1977

Status: Demolished (2005)

The Acton Hilton

Rehearsal Rooms

Photographed Above: 1982

Status: Demolished (2010)

1960s
St Katherines Warehouses
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Filmed: 27 August 1964

Status: Demolished (1970s)

John's Hole Quarry
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Filmed: 28 August 1964

Status: Filled In

The Bonny Mary

The Smugglers

Filmed: 23 June 1966

Status: Dismantled 

Heathfield Street

The Invasion (and The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night)

Filmed: 11 September 1968

Status: Demolished

Moor Lane
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Victoria Road Factory
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The Invasion, Spearhead from Space,

The Ambassadors of Death

Filmed: 9 Sep 1968 - 28 Jan 1970

Status: Demolished

The Invasion

Filmed: 8 September 1968

Status: Redeveloped (2011)

Wood Lane Central Station

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Filmed: 25 August 1964

Status: Demolished (2006)

Bayswater Road Police Box
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The Chase

Filmed: 6 May 1965

Status: Demolished

BBC Kendall Avenue
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The Evil of the Daleks

Filmed: 21 April 1967

Status: Demolished (2000s)

Wallingford Malt Plant
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The Invasion

Filmed: 6 September 1968

Status: Demolished (2004)

Fore Street
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The Invasion

Filmed: 8 September 1968

Status: Redeveloped (2011)

The Palace of Industry

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Filmed: 23 August 1964

Status: Demolished (2006)

Callow Hill Sand Pit
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The Gunfighters (location in The Savages unknown)

Filmed: 1 May 1966

Status: Used as landfill

Tryfan Slate Area
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The Abominable Snowmen

Photoshoot: 4-9 September 1967

Status: Built upon

Guinness Factory Railway
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The Invasion

Filmed: 11 September 1968

Status: Now Rainsford Rd (2008)

Distaff Lane
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The Invasion

Filmed: 8 September 1968

Status: Redeveloped (1990s)

HM Government Pavilion
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Filmed: 23 August 1964

Status: Demolished (Lions moved)

Gresse Street
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The War Machines

Filmed: 11 May 1966

Status: Demolished

Old Brewer's Yard
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The Web of Fear

Filmed: 17 December 1967

Status: Redeveloped

Guinness Factory
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The Invasion

Filmed: 11 September 1968

Status: Demolished (2006)

Saint Peter's Steps

The Invasion

Filmed: 8 September 1968

Status: Redeveloped (1990s)

1970s
Swancombe House Walkway

The Silurians

Filmed: 12 November 1969

Status: Demolished (2002)

1980s
1990s
2000s
National Army Museum

Thirty Years in the TARDIS

Filmed: 1993

Status: Redeveloped (2015)

2010s
Maelfa Shopping Centre

The Sound of Drums, The Zygon Inversion

Filmed: February 2007, May 2015

Status: Redeveloped (2017)

Claypond Lane Carpark

Series 2 Photoshoot

Photographed: 25 July 2005

Status: Built upon (2007)

Eddie's Diner
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The Impossible Astronaut, Hell Bent

Filmed: 19 Oct 2010, 17 Aug 2015

Status: Closed (2019) 

(Became Teddy T's on Barry Island)

Lane outside TVC

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Filmed: 8 September 2013

Status: Redeveloped (2015)

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