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Coal Hill School, (DW: An Unearthly Child) also known as Coal Hill Secondary School,
(MOV: Doctor Who: Genesis) was an English secondary school. (MOV: Doctor Who: Genesis)
According to one account, the school was located on Coal Hill Road. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) The Doctor was involved with Coal Hill in several of their incarnations. Two of the Doctor's companions worked there, and his granddaughter, Susan, was enrolled as a pupil.
History
20th Century
1960's
In November 1963, Coal Hill's headmaster was H. Parson, who at some point came under the mental control of the Imperial Dalek faction attempting to locate the Hand of Omega. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
On 22 November, 1963, (DW: Who Killed Kennedy) history teacher Barbara Wright became intrigued by an unusual pupil in the school, Susan Foreman. She and science teacher Ian Chesterton, (who had recently been fired) followed Susan home from Coal Hill after Susan gave the address for herself and her grandfather as 76 Totter's Lane, a junkyard. They discovered that their student and her grandfather, in reality the first incarnation of the Doctor, were time travellers from another world. Barbara, Ian, and Susan subsequently left Coal Hill when the Doctor kidnapped the teachers in his TARDIS, which was in the junkyard, to ensure that they couldn't tell anyone about the ship. The Doctor also took his granddaughter away from 20th century Earth against her wishes. This started off Ian and Barbara's travels in time and space. (DW: An Unearthly Child); (MOV: Doctor Who: Genesis)
At the same time as these events, the Fourteenth Doctor bumped into Susan Foreman while leaving through the school gates. She later returned to the school the next day to deactivate a bomb planted by the Master. (MOV: Doctor Who: Genesis)
Shortly afterwards, a janitor of the school went missing. When headmaster Parson met the Seventh Doctor, Parson assumed that the Doctor came to apply for the job of school caretaker. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) Ultimately, the school became the site of what was later dubbed the Shoreditch Incident, (DW: Who Killed Kennedy) a battle between British military forces, scientists and the Seventh Doctor, and Imperial and Renegade Dalek forces that appropriated the school for their base of operations, installing a transmat in the basement. Most of the fighting occurred outside the school and at nearby 76 Totter's Lane, although the Doctor's companion, Ace, found herself in pitched battle with several Daleks inside the school. The Imperial Dalek shuttle eventually landed in the Coal Hill schoolyard, shattering windows of the building. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)