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London and Canary
The growth brought to Docklands enabled the Jubilee Line to be extended in 1999 to east London by a more southerly route than originally proposed, through Surrey Quays, Canary Wharf and the Greenwich Peninsula ( which was the next regeneration area ) to Stratford.
The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building and established a second major financial centre in London.
The nearest London Underground train stations are Canary Wharf tube station — on the Jubilee Line, to the east ; and Stepney Green tube station on the District line, to the north.
Following the arrival of the Jubilee line in 1999 ( giving quick connections to the West End and to Canary Wharf ) and the London Overground in 2010 ( providing a quick route to the City of London ), the rest of Rotherhithe is now a rapidly gentrifying residential and commuter area, with current regeneration progressing most quickly around Canada Water, where a new town centre with restaurant and retail units as well as new residential developments is emerging around the existing freshwater lake and transport hub.
London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines both serve the regional station and link Stratford to Oxford Street, Wembley Stadium, Epping and Canary Wharf.
The Docklands Light Railway ( DLR ) was extended to Stratford in 1987, and to Stratford International in 2011, with services to Poplar, Canary Wharf, Lewisham, London City Airport, the Excel Centre, Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal.
The main alleged reason for this decision was that many workers in Canary Wharf lived in Essex and could change from National Rail to the Jubilee Line at Stratford, London and West Ham.
It also includes much of the redeveloped Docklands region of London, including West India Docks and Canary Wharf.
The area is relatively affordable, given the short commuting distance to both central London and Canary Wharf, via the Docklands Light Railway.
Examples include the Canary Wharf financial district in London, which functions as the secondary financial heart of the city, Akasaka, Ikebukuro, Roppongi, Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Shiodome in Tokyo, Minato, Suminoe and Osaka Business Park in Osaka City, Rinku Town in Osaka Prefecture, Plaza district, New York and Bandra CBD, Mumbai.
Canary Wharf is located in the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London.
Upon opening, the London commercial property market had collapsed and Olympia and York Canary Wharf Limited filed for bankruptcy in May 1992.
One Canada Square ( often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location ) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London.
" The Canary Wharf Tower marks the start of a new beginning for Canary Wharf, for London, and for the United Kingdom.
London and Wharf
He had a studio at Butler's Wharf, London, and was part of the Andrew Logan social scene in the 1970s.
His property was later returned to him ( c. 1646 ) but Jones ended his days, unmarried, living in Somerset House and was subsequently buried with his parents in the Church of St Benet Paul's Wharf, the Welsh church of the City of London.
London and Lloyd's
That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.
When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.
A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin.
Exceptions include Lloyd's of London, which is famous for insuring the life or health of actors, sports figures and other famous individuals.
Lloyd's of London, pictured in 1991, is one of the world's leading and most famous insurance markets
Today, Lloyd's of London remains the leading market ( note that it is an insurance market rather than a company ) for marine and other specialist types of insurance, but it operates rather differently than the more familiar kinds of insurance.
In time the business association they form will outgrow the coffee house premises and become Lloyd's of London.
With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).
Lloyd's of London came into being in 1688 in English coffee shops that catered to sailors, traders, and others involved in trade.
When the city pressured local insurance companies to stop insuring cars used in the carpools, the boycott leaders arranged policies with Lloyd's of London.
The town used a combination of funds raised locally and contributed by Lloyd's of London to purchase a lifeboat built to Henry Greathead's " Original " design.
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