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Marriott Canary Wharf
The London Marriott Hotel Canary Wharf (previously the London Marriott Hotel West India Quay) is a hotel located at 1 West India Quay, 22 Hertsmere Road, and is named after the Canary Wharf financial estate where it overlooks West India Dock North. It is operated by Marriott Hotels, and has 301 rooms and 47 serviced apartments. It is owned by the Monaco-based billionaire property developer John Christodoulou. Architecture and facilities In 2001, planning permission was gained by Squire and Partners for a slender landmark hotel tower conceived to act as a visual counterpoint to the monumental brick form of the adjacent Victorian warehouses in London's London Docklands, Docklands. Designed by HOK (firm), HOK, its elliptical form is reminiscent of the curved hull of a boat. The building was completed in 2004. The bottom 12 floors of the 33-floor building house the hotel, with 301 rooms on floors 1–8, and 47 serviced suites on floors 9–12. Facilities include the Manhattan Gri ... [...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] |
Michael Dawson (footballer)
Michael Richard Dawson (born 18 November 1983) is an English former professional football player and sports pundit. As a player, he was a centre back. Dawson started his career at Nottingham Forest playing alongside veteran defender Des Walker before moving to Tottenham Hotspur with teammate Andy Reid for a fee of £8 million. While at Tottenham, Dawson won the League Cup in 2008. His form in the 2009–10 season saw him included in England's preliminary 2010 FIFA World Cup squad. Although he initially failed to make the final 23-man squad, an injury to captain Rio Ferdinand saw him drafted in as replacement. In August 2014, Hull City signed Dawson from Tottenham for a fee believed to be £3.5 million. Although relegated with Hull at the end of the 2014–15 season, he helped them return to the Premier League when they beat Sheffield Wednesday in the 2016 Championship play-off final. After 4 years at Hull, he returned to former club Nottingham Forest in May 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East London Advertiser
The ''East London Advertiser'' is a mostly free weekly local newspaper in east London, England covering primarily the borough of Tower Hamlets. It was formed in late 2011 by Archant's merging of ''The Docklands'' and the ''East London Advertiser''. The ''East London Advertiser'' was founded in 1866 and had been owned by Archant since 2003. It merged with freesheet Free newspapers are distributed Gratis versus libre, free of charge, often in central places in cities and towns, on public transport, with other newspapers, or separately door-to-door. The revenues of such newspapers are based on advertising. T ... ''The Docklands'' in 2011. In June 2008 the ''East London Advertiser'' scooped two awards at the annual '' UK Press Gazette'' Regional Press Awards. It was named Weekly Paper of the Year (Circulation less than 20,000) and its deputy editor, Ted Jeory, was named Reporter of the Year (Weeklies), partly for his expose of the First Solution Money Transfer crisis in 2007. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Redknapp
Henry James Redknapp (born 2 March 1947) is an English former association football, football manager (association football), manager and player. He has previously managed AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United F.C., West Ham United, Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth, Southampton F.C., Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City. In his second spell at Portsmouth, he managed the side that won the 2007–08 FA Cup, 2008 FA Cup. At the conclusion of the 2009–10 season, he guided Tottenham into the UEFA Champions League. Redknapp announced his retirement from football management in 2017. His son, Jamie Redknapp, played under him at Bournemouth and Southampton. He is also uncle to Frank Lampard, who played under him at West Ham United. Early life Redknapp was born in Poplar, London, Poplar, London, the only child of Henry Joseph William Redknapp (1922–1996) and Violet May Brown (1924–2001) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juande Ramos
Juan de la Cruz "Juande" Ramos Cano (born 25 September 1954) is a former Spanish footballer and manager. After playing and managing at an amateur level, Ramos led Rayo Vallecano to promotion to La Liga, followed by reaching the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 2001. After brief spells in La Liga at Real Betis, Espanyol and Málaga, he took over at Sevilla in 2005. In two years at the club, he won the UEFA Cup on two occasions, as well as the UEFA Super Cup in 2006, and also winning the Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España. Ramos had a brief spell in England's Premier League, winning the Football League Cup at Tottenham Hotspur in 2008. He then managed Real Madrid, CSKA Moscow, Dnipro and Málaga again. Playing career Ramos played for Elche, Alcoyano, Linares, Eldense, Alicante and Dénia as a midfielder, until he retired due to a knee injury at the age of 28. Management career Early years and Rayo Ramos began his managerial career in 1990 at Elche CF Ilicitano. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Caterer
''The Caterer'' is the leading multimedia brand for the UK hospitality industry. Since 1878 it has been helping operators build better businesses and better careers, as well as providing suppliers with a platform to showcase their most innovative products and services. It is the only hospitality media brand with a pan-industry focus and reach, with extensive coverage of hotels, restaurants, foodservice and pubs/bars. History and profile ''Caterer and Hotelkeeper'' (now ''The Caterer''), first issued in 1878, was published by Reed Business Information until 2012, when it was bought by Travel Weekly Group and Jacobs Media Group owner Clive Jacobs. It employs around 30 staff and is based in Victoria, London, UK. It is published by Jacobs Media Group. As of 24 August 2020, the editor is James Stagg. On 2 July 2014, ''Caterer and Hotelkeeper'' rebranded as ''The Caterer''. Its coverage of the industry stayed the same but the name was changed. ''The Caterer'' became an entirely-digita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Huddlestone
Thomas Andrew Huddlestone (born 28 December 1986) is an English former professional Association football, footballer and coach, who is currently a first team assistant coach at Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City. He played as a midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder. Having progressed through the youth ranks at Nottingham Forest F.C., Nottingham Forest and Derby County F.C., Derby County, Huddlestone began his professional career in 2003 with the latter club. He quickly broke into the first team, and made 88 league appearances before switching to Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur in 2005. Having spent some of the 2005–06 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, 2005–06 season on Loan (sports), loan to Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he made 13 league appearances, he began to break into the Tottenham team during the 2006–07 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2006–07 season, and became a regular player for the club. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Barnard
Lee James Barnard (born 18 July 1984) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Early life Born in Romford, London Borough of Havering in 1984, he attended Billericay's Mayflower County High School. Career Barnard played for Leyton Orient, Northampton Town, Exeter City, and Stevenage Borough (where he scored his first career goal against Shrewsbury Town), all on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur Thanks to his prodigious goal scoring rate at reserve level, he was expected to make his first team debut in the 2005–06 season. He was due to make his debut in the match against Charlton Athletic on 5 February 2006. Tottenham were leading 3–0 until a Charlton goal in the 69th minute meant Martin Jol did not want to bring on another striker so Barnard had to wait. Following the match he suffered a foot sprain which kept him out of action for five weeks, only returning for the reserve match against Leicester City on 18 March. On 17 April, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Lennon
Aaron Justin Lennon (; born 16 April 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right winger. Lennon began his career at hometown club Leeds United, making his first-team debut in 2003 and becoming the youngest player to play in the Premier League at that time. He moved to Tottenham Hotspur in 2005 for £1 million, where he made 364 appearances across all competitions and scored 30 goals. In 2008, Lennon won his first major honour, the League Cup, as Tottenham defeated London rivals Chelsea in the final. He joined Everton in 2015 for £4.5 million, after his successful spell with the club on loan. He scored nine goals in 77 appearances for Everton before joining fellow Premier League club Burnley in 2018 on a two-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee. He made 55 appearances for the Lancashire club and scored one goal before departing on a free transfer to Kayserispor in Turkey in September 2020. He returned to Burnley in August 2021 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teemu Tainio
Teemu Mikael Tainio (born 27 November 1979) is a Finnish association football, football coach and former player. Tainio began his career with his local club, TP-47, before moving to FC Haka in 1996. A year later, he moved to France to play for AJ Auxerre, Auxerre. After eight years there, he joined English club Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur, where he spent three years before joining Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland. After a loan spell with Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City during the 2009–10 season, he moved to Dutch club AFC Ajax, Ajax, before joining the New York Red Bulls in 2011. After two seasons in the United States, he returned to Finland to finish his career with Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, HJK. He mostly played in a variety of Midfielder, midfield positions during his career, and also at right-back under Juande Ramos at Tottenham. Club career Early life and career Tainio was born in Tornio. He was promoted to the first team of his hometown club TP-47 in Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calum Davenport
Calum Ray Paul Davenport (born 1 January 1983) is an English former professional footballer who plays for Tavistock in the Southern League Division One South. During his career he has played for Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Southampton, Norwich City, Watford, Sunderland, Wootton Blue Cross and Elstow Abbey. He plays as a defender. Club career Coventry City Davenport joined Coventry City as a trainee in August 2000.Soccerbase: Calum Davenport , Racing Post. Retrieved 20 June 2007. He made his debut, in the final game of the 2000–01, a 0–0 draw against Bradford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radek Cerny
Radek is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of Radovan, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French horn player * Radek Bejbl, Czech footballer * Radek Bělohlav, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Dosoudil, Czech footballer * Radek Duda, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Faksa, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Jaroš, Czech mountaineer and author * Radek John, Czech publicist, author and writer * Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Pilař, Czech painter * Radek Sikorski, Polish politician * Radek Smoleňák, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player Fictional characters * Radek Zelenka, character in '' Stargate:Atlantis'' Surname *Karl Radek (1885–1939), Bolshevik and international Communist leader *General Ivan Radek, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
