Results tagged “Docklands”
It's been a memorable year in Canary Wharf but how much of the detail can you remember?
Test your knowledge of the events around Docklands in 2009 - no prizes other than the satisfaction of knowing you kept up-to-date reading Canary Wharf's original and leading local paper.
Professor Shafik Naib has long been a fan of this part of London and has even successfully campaigned for the salvation of its oldest buildings.
In his latest book, London And Dockland Historical Reader And Picture Collection, the University of East London's professor of civil engineering documents more than 500 years of the area.
Victims of the Docklands bomb returned to the scene of the blast this week for the emotional unveiling of a new plaque.
Two people lost their lives and dozens of people were seriously injured by flying debris and glass in the IRA attack at Marshwall 14 years ago.
Golfer Sam Torrance was getting into the swing of things when he dropped into the area this week.
The former Ryder Cup winning captain was at top clothes designer Tony Q'aja's Docklands base getting kitted out for next season, and he thinks British golf is in pretty good shape.
The University of East London confirmed an alternative G20 summit held at their Docklands campus "ended peacefully".
UEL cancelled the summit last week and closed its campus amid fears of violence. But 200 turned up regardless, including speakers Tony Benn and activist comedian Mark Thomas.
Saturday. Business as usual around Royal Victoria Dock. The community is reclaiming their corner of the world from the media, the police, the politicians and the protesters.
The sea cadets are practising figure-of-eight manoeuvres in their high powered RIBs, replacing the police boats that had been patrolling day and night.
I have not, in all honesty, been forced to ask this question much before but now it nags at my brain like a barbed wire bowler.
What should I wear? The talk is of nothing else. We press coat-hangered crustie-wear to our chests and size it up in full-length Oxfam mirrors.
The University of East London plans to shut down its Docklands campus during the G20 summit.
The campus - which is a few hundred yards from the Excel centre - is to close on Wednesday and Thursday "to maintain a safe campus environment".
I'm hunkering down. I've bought a dozen cans of Spam, the greatest hits of Flanagan and Allen and I've converted my Breville Sandwich Toaster into an AM transmitter.
I shall live for a week behind a dusty yardage of innocuous-looking books with titles like Capitalism? Think On.
Is your spare room stuffed with old boxes, extractor fans and broken TVs? Why not make some money and fill it with a person instead?
It's an idea that's occurring to an increasing number of people in Docklands, especially with the Olympics just around the corner.
The eyes of the world will be focusing on the Excel and Docklands in April when leading political figures arrive for the London Summit.
International media will be flocking to the region in east London, which can only be a boost for the Borough of Newham during times of global financial hardship.
WHILE most nature photographers go to the far-flung reaches of the world to find beauty, a Docklands artist finds her subjects much closer to home, writes Rob Virtue.
Anna Hillman, who has a studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf, will have her work displayed in Greenwich for five weeks.
THE Docklands business community paid tribute to the best of their own at a lavish ceremony.
The prestigious Docklands Business Club and East London Chamber Business Awards gala event greeted dozens of leading business representatives and revealed the results in eight hard-fought categories last week.
WE’RE all aware that Docklands has a colourful past but one new website gives an insight into what it was really like in ye olde Isle of Dogs.
Murder, riots and one poor soul who was sentenced to death for interfering with a cow, are all included in the Old Bailey records of 1674 to 1913, which were released last week.
But one crime, which helped form the docks of today and saw the perpetrators facing long periods in prison or being shipped off to a harsh life in Australia, was the heinous activity of… sugar theft.
HOMEOWNERS in Docklands – here’s your chance to cash in on the Olympics.
A website has been created which allows people with spare rooms to take advantage of the influx of tourists coming to London for 2012.
Places-to-stay-London.com was launched this week and as well as including hotels and B&Bs, it offers homeowners a slice of the Olympic pie.
FORGET your towering housing estates and gated communities – the next big thing to come to Docklands is floating apartment blocks.
That’s the dream of a property developer who wants to fill the area with a fleet of
houseboats, each containing a number of flats.
His first project is transforming a disused Thames tanker called The Bruce Stone into four plush residential blocks containing 16 bedrooms.
It is currently at a dock in Barking where the finishing touches are being completed.
POSTBOXES in Docklands have been sealed shut for more than a week – because the red-faced Royal Mail lost a set of keys.
Steel shutters were put across the slots of 10 boxes on the Isle of Dogs after the postal service misplaced the keys used to open them to collect mail.
Bemused residents were given no explanation for the sudden closures. Many claim the postboxes have been closed for a month, but Royal Mail says they have only been shut for just over a week.
The final stage of the New Providence Wharf development to the east of Canary Wharf has been approved.
Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development committee voted to allow the 486-unit scheme, which features 12 and 44-storey buildings as well as a health and fitness club and shops.
Committee members decided developers Ballymore and Landor should contribute £1.5million towards improvements to the nearby Aspen Way roundabout, as well as provide 33 per cent affordable housing on site.
A donation of up to £4m for the roundabout was among the available options, but a majority of committee members opted for the larger percentage of affordable housing.
LEARN to Salsa with style over at The O2.
Salsa Mondays kicked off this week (February 11) at Thai Silk restaurant and bar on Entertainment Avenue, led by top dance instructor Robert Charlemagne.
Lessons will take place every Monday evening, with the beginner class starting at 7pm, and “improvers�
following on at 8pm.
SHE’S been a support act for Dionne Warwick and Isaac Hayes – but now this Docklands resident is hoping her Valentine’s Day single will make her a megastar in her own right.
Lankai, who lives at Tradewinds estate in the Royal Docks, has performed at the same London charity concert as the soul duo and has also supported Jimmy Cliff in Paris.
The Ghanaian-born singer was set to release her own single, I Found Love, on February 14.
“I’ve just watched my new video – it’s amazing, just so exciting,� she said. “I really feel like things are starting to happen. I am so busy at the moment, it’s really exhausting – there is so much I want to get done before my single is released, but I love it.
“Everybody wants to release a single. This is a dream come true for me.�
