Last Alteration: Sunday 07 April 2013
11 Nant-Fawr Road
11 Nant-Fawr Road
Cardiff
How to get here:
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No route recorded to this location.
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This location is private and has no or limited access only. This is a private residence.
Where to walk to next?
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Nant-Fawr Road (Partners in Crime, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End, The End of Time). Exit the house to the street.
Additional locations as the crow flies:
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Henllys Road (The Mark of the Berserker): 0.10 miles. 
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No 3 Henllys Road (The Mark of the Berserker): 0.11 miles.
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House, Bettws-y-Coed Road (The Mark of the Berserker): 0.25 miles.
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Cardiff High School (Revenge of the Slitheen, The Lost Boy, Day of the Clown, The Mark of the Berserker, The Gift, The Nightmare Man, The Curse of Clyde Langer): 0.26 miles. 
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289 Cyncoed Road (Random Shoes): 0.39 miles. 
Filming Reports:
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2 Nov 2007: Album - Photos from the house, dressed for /.
In the News:
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9 May 2009: Western Mail - John and Tracey George's home in Cyncoed was transformed into
Catherine Tate's house for Doctor Who. John, director of, and solicitor for
Asset Management Solutions in Cardiff, had never thought of putting his home
on TV until a letter came through the door. "When we had a letter saying our
house met the criteria and could they use it we thought it was a hoax," John
says with a laugh. "They filmed four or five times between October 2007 and
February 2008 for between half a day to three days. We moved to a hotel when
they came for three days. We didn't feel nervous as we enjoyed it. You can't
do it for the money. You.ve got to want to do it. We met Catherine Tate and
David Tennant. They were great, very friendly. All the neighbours and kids
turned up when they were here. They signed autographs and let us take photos."
The downside was that the production team removed the furniture in the front
living room, took down the curtains and repainted the cream walls terracotta.
"When filming was over it was very odd seeing our house on TV. Friends texted
to say they'd seen our kitchen on Doctor Who," John remembers.
As filming ran from October to February the production team left some items
behind, notably Catherine Tate's kitchen table. John and Tracey's children
Olivia, seven and Ethan, nine, enjoyed inviting friends to eat tea off the
celebrity item in breaks between filming.
John says he enjoyed seeing how TV programmes are made.
"The team paid enormous attention to detail. The set dressers came and took
photos so they could put it back all the same when they came back to film
again. On one particularly busy day there were 50 crew and cast in the house
and neighbours flocked to see what was happening. For a short period
afterwards people still drove by to look at the house that Catherine Tate
'lived in', but no-one has ever knocked on the door and asked to look inside."
(Extract from an article on filming at residences for television series)
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