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Description: From "Tower Bridge" to the "Isle of Dogs" and Canary Wharf.

Newest Review: ... at least) just want to head west towards Brick Lane with her plethora of curry houses! The Docklands Light Railway has opened up a great deal o f this area to a wider audience. It's a great transport system and may be the way of light transit systems of the future, with very good access (except at peak ... more

... 'crush' hour). Basically, Docklands isn't all high rise offices, and yuppie pads, reminiscient of some of the worse excesses of the 80s. Walk a few hundred metres north from the river and you are in the heart of what is possibly one of the most...more

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Docklands: Eastenders (552 words)
by - written on 15/09/00 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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Docklands has undergone a transformation through the eighties and nineties, but it can't escape it's roots amongst the Thames' snaky path east. From the building developments, Canary Wharf, presently the tallest building in London, towers. Canary Wharf is an office building with a shopping centre in the middle, in a vain hope of attracting the new yuppie-types moving into Docklands. I've never seen this shopping centre at anything remotely near to busy, but then, it doesn't have the greatest selection of shops! A new cinema has just opened in West India Quay, multi-screen multiplex, same as there are all over the place really. ... Read the complete review

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