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Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is a financial area of London, England, located in the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Greater London Authority defines it as part of London's central business district, alongside Central London. Alongside the City of London and the West End of London, West End, it constitutes one of the main financial centres in the United Kingdom and the world, containing many major global companies and banks' headquarters and high-rise buildings, including the List of tallest buildings in the UK, third-tallest in the UK, One Canada Square. Developed on the site of the former West India Docks in East London, Canary Wharf contains around of office and retail space. It has many open areas and gardens, including Canada Square, Cabot Square, Westferry Circus, Jubilee Park, and Crossrail Place Roof Garden. Together with Heron Quays and Wood Wharf, it forms the Canary Wharf Estate, around in area. History Canary Wharf is located on the West India Docks on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Borough Of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London boroughs, borough in London, England. Situated on the north bank of the River Thames and immediately east of the City of London, the borough spans much of the traditional East End of London and includes much of the regenerated London Docklands area. The 2019 mid-year population for the borough is estimated at 324,745. The borough was formed in 1965 by merger of the former Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, metropolitan boroughs of Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, Stepney, Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, Poplar, and Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green. 'Tower Hamlets' was originally an alternative name for the historic Tower division, Tower Division; the area of south-east Middlesex, focused on (but not limited to) the area of the modern borough, which owed military service to the Tower of London. The Tower of London itself is located in the borough, adjacent to its western boundary with the City of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Business District
A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city centre" or "downtown". However, these concepts are not necessarily synonymous: many cities have a central ''business'' district located away from its traditional city center, and there may be multiple CBDs within a single urban area. The CBD will often be highly accessible and have a large variety and concentration of specialised goods and services compared to other parts of the city. Midtown Manhattan is the world's largest central business district. In the City of London, the largest concentration of economic output in the world is held there, with many headquarters of major financial and law firms being based in the City. In Chicago, the Chicago Loop is the second-largest central business district in the United States. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Centre
A financial centre (financial center in American English) or financial hub is a location with a significant concentration of commerce in financial services. The commercial activity that takes place in a financial centre may include banking, asset management, insurance, and provision of financial markets, with venues and supporting services for these activities to take place. Global financial system#Participants, Participants can include Financial intermediary, financial intermediaries (such as banks and brokers), institutional investors (such as investment managers, pension funds, insurers, and hedge funds), and issuers (such as companies and governments). Trade, Trading activity often takes place on venues such as Exchange (organized market), exchanges and involves Clearing house (finance), clearing houses, although many transactions take place Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter (OTC), directly between participants. Financial centres usually host companies that offe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Milligan (merchant)
Robert Milligan (19 August 1746 – 21 May 1809) was a Scottish merchant, ship-owner and slave trader who was the driving force behind the construction and initial statutory sectoral monopoly of the West India Docks in London. From 1768 to 1779 Milligan was a merchant in Kingston, Jamaica. He left Jamaica in 1779 to establish himself in London, where he got married and had a family of eight children. He moved to Hampstead shortly before he died in 1809. By the time of his death, one of Milligan's partnerships had interests in estates in Jamaica which owned 526 slaves in their sugar plantations. Biography Milligan was born on 19 August 1746 in Dumfries, Scotland. Between about 1768 and 1779 he was a merchant in Kingston, Jamaica. One of his enterprises whilst in Jamaica was as a partner in ''Dick and Milligan'', a firm which was involved in the bulk buying of slaves, to be sold on the island (slave factoring). Milligan also had a business relationship with another Scottis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poplar, London
Poplar is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located five miles (8 km) east of Charing Cross and lies on the western bank of the River Lea. Poplar is identified as a major district centre in the London Plan, with its centre being Chrisp Street Market, a significant commercial and retail centre surrounded by extensive residential development. Originally part of the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney, the ''Hamlet of Poplar'' had become an autonomous area of Stepney by the 17th century, and an independent parish in 1817, the Parish and later Metropolitan Borough of Poplar. After a series of mergers, Poplar became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965. History Origin and administrative history Poplar was formerly part of the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney, and was first recorded in either 1327''The History of the Countryside'', Oliver Rackham, 1986, p207 or 1350. It took its name from the Black Poplar trees which once flourished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millwall
Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of Rotherhithe, west of Cubitt Town, and has a long shoreline along London's Tideway, part of the River Thames. It was part of the County of Middlesex and from 1889, following the passing of the Local Government Act 1888, the County of London; it later became part of Greater London in 1965. Millwall had a population of 23,084 in 2011 and includes Island Gardens, The Quarterdeck and The Space. History Millwall is a smaller area of land than an average parish, as it was part of Poplar until the 19th century when it became heavily industrialised, containing the workplaces and homes of a few thousand dockside and shipbuilding workers. Among its factories were the shipbuilding ironworks of William Fairbairn, much of which survives as today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabot Square, Canary Wharf - June 2008
Cabot may refer to: People * Cabot (surname) Places * 7317 Cabot, the asteroid ''Cabot'', a main-belt asteroid, the 7317th asteroid registered Canada * Cabot Head, in Ontario * Cabot Square, Montreal, Quebec * Lac Cabot, Mauricie, Quebec; a freshwater lake () * Cabot Strait, between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia * Cabot Trail, a highway in Nova Scotia * Cabot Education Centre, Neil's Harbour, Nova Scotia * Cabot Tower (St. John's), Newfoundland * Cabot Beach Provincial Park, Prince Edward Island United States * Cabot, Arkansas * Cabot Public Schools, Lonoke County, Arkansas * Cabot Center, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts * Cabot, Pennsylvania * Cabot, Vermont ** Cabot (village), Vermont * Cabot House, Harvard University * Mount Cabot, in New Hampshire * Cabot Mill, in Brunswick, Maine United Kingdom * Cabot, Bristol * Cabot Square, London ** Cabot Hall * Cabot Tower, Bristol, England Fictional locations * Cabot Cove, the fictional setting for the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docklands Enterprise 1987 Plaque 25
Dockland or Docklands are areas occupied by, or in the neighbourhood of maritime docks, sometimes described as a Sailortown (dockland). The term is more common in Britain and the British Commonwealth. Specifically the term may refer to: * Aarhus Docklands, Denmark * Buenos Aires Docklands, Argentina * , a distinctive office building on the Elbe in Hamburg 's Altona-Altstadt district * Docklands, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia ** Docklands Stadium, a stadium in the Docklands area, currently known as Marvel Stadium ** Docklands Studios Melbourne, a film and television production facility * Dublin Docklands, Dublin, Ireland * Eastern Docklands, Amsterdam, Netherlands * London Docklands London Docklands is an area of London encompassing the city’s former docks. It is located in inner east and southeast London, in the boroughs of London Borough of Southwark, Southwark, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets, London ..., London, England See also * {{Geodis Docks ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Dogs 1899
An isle is an island, land surrounded by water. The term is very common in British English. However, there is no clear agreement on what makes an island an isle or its difference, so they are considered synonyms. Isle may refer to: Geography * Isle (river), a river in France * Isle, Haute-Vienne, a commune of the Haute-Vienne ''département'' in France * Isle, Minnesota, a small city in the United States * River Isle, a river in England Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' (or ''ISLE''), a journal published by Oxford University Press for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment *''The Isle'', 2017 film with Conleth Hill * ''The Isle'', a 2000 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk * ''Isle'' (album) Other uses * International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), a learned society of linguists See also * Aisle An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Wharf
Wood Wharf is a 23 acrehttps://group.canarywharf.com/portfolio/wood-wharf/ Wood Wharf, Canary Wharf Group PLC, Retrieved 26 April 2018 site in Canary Wharf, London. It is currently under construction to provide offices, residential homes and retail space. The site is next to Canary Wharf. Wood Wharf will contain 5 million square feet of space, which will include 2 million sq ft of office space, 3,330 residential homes, 3.6 hectares (8.9 acres) of public spaces, and 380,000 sq ft of shops, restaurants and space for community use. It is estimated to be completed in 2023. The architects for the site include Allies and Morrison, Darling Associates, KPF, Herzog & de Meuron, Pilbrow & Partners, Stanton Williams Architects, Grid Architects, and Patel Taylor. The master plan has been designed by Allies and Morrison Architects, with Adamson Associates (International) Ltd. as executive architect. Site history The Wood Wharf Business Park was sold by British Waterways to a joint partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heron Quays
Heron Quays is an area of the Canary Wharf development on the Isle of Dogs, part of the London Docklands. It is served by a railway station on the London Docklands Light Railway network, Heron Quays DLR station, which was moved south after the development was expanded. Three skyscrapers dominate the area: 25 Bank Street, 40 Bank Street and 10 Upper Bank Street. Heron Quays was an area of dockside and warehousing which separated South Dock and Middle (Export) Dock of the West India Docks complex, completed in 1802 to service Britain's rapidly increasing trade with its global empire. However, by the 1970s the area had experienced a decline in industry and was derelict. The nearest London Underground station is Canary Wharf on the Jubilee line and Heron Quays DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated medium-capacity rail system, light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped London Docklands, Dockla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westferry Circus
Westferry Circus is a road interchange and public space in Canary Wharf estate in London, and contains a two-level road interchange. There are two roundabouts, one above the other. It was designed by Laurie Olin. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction."circus", Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Edition 1989 Notable buildings on the street include 11 Westferry Circus and 15 Westferry Circus. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, Tower Hamlets Council pays for the lighting in the lower roundabout, which is on all the time. This costs £34,800 per annum. References {{Coord, 51, 30, 20.61, N, 0, 1, 36.73, W, scale:1563_region:GB, display=title Roundabouts in England Road junctions in London Canary Wharf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
