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A local public library, called Idea Store Canary Wharf, is in Churchill Place shopping mall and run by Tower Hamlets Council which opened on Thursday 16 March 2006 as part of the Idea Store project [101] and is the borough fourth Idea Store. [102] Cinema. Canary Wharf hosts two multiplexes (cinemas), one on West India Quay run by Cineworld.
To get a read on Canary Wharf’s future, it helps to look back at its past. The Docklands, located in the industrial east of London, went from a marshland to an important trade port.
Between 12 February and 15 April 1996 there was no service south of Canary Wharf due to a bombing near South Quay. [6] The station was resited to make platform extensions easier as the previous site had tight curves at either end. It was resited on 26 October 2009. [32] Millwall: Star Lane: Newham
Construction of the project officially began on 8 December 1993, with a ceremony at Canary Wharf attended by Prime Minister John Major. [17] [18] Construction was expected to take 53 months, with an opening date of May 1998. [19] Tunnelling began in August 1994 at North Greenwich. [15] By August 1996, all tunnelling work had been completed. [15]
Canary Wharf tube station was constructed within the middle dock in the 1990s. [10] Part of the original dock building was converted for use as the Museum of London Docklands in 2003. [11] [12] The Crossrail Place development was completed in May 2015 [13] and the Canary Wharf Crossrail station below it was completed in September 2015. [14]
Heron Quays is a light metro station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Bank to Lewisham Line in the Heron Quays area of Canary Wharf in East London.The station is situated on the Isle of Dogs and serves the southern part of the Canary Wharf office complex and is directly connected to the Jubilee Place underground shopping centre.
Canary Wharf is a London Underground station at Canary Wharf and is on the Jubilee line, between Canada Water and North Greenwich stations. The station is located in Travelcard Zone 2 [ 8 ] and was opened on 17 September 1999 [ 9 ] as part of the Jubilee Line Extension .
LDDC helped to create Canary Wharf, Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, London City Airport, ExCeL London, London Arena and the Docklands Light Railway, bringing more than 120,000 new jobs to the Docklands and making the area highly sought after for housing. Although initially fiercely resisted by local councils and residents, today it is generally ...