Results tagged “Docklands”

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.”