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During the day, I find the only folk you see around Canary Wharf are local shoppers heading for the Waitrose. The emptiness of the Wharf estate feels very surreal.

IslandDweller | 20.08.20 - 8:31 a.m. | #

I was tickled by the very precise (and small) location of Millwall football club's foundation.

I would have expected a slightly larger site.

Petras409 | 20.08.20 - 8:46 a.m. | #

I do like that sign on the pier - it's very 90s. Pictures on the Isle of Dogs Life blog show that it was once red, white and blue, like the original DLR livery.

martin | 20.08.20 - 9:35 a.m. | #

Nice stroll. I have restarted work in the office, i like AC and peace and quiet and don t mind almost empty tube.

The Helaine Blumenfeld exhibition, indoors in Canada Tower and outdoor everywhere, is a bit repetitive but enjoyable overall.

The park with the minigolf is new, i believe, after completion of the SocGen squat tower at 1 Bank St. Hopefully the park is here for longer now.

Hubert Berlye | 20.08.20 - 11:25 a.m. | #

I can't believe they're planning on cramming in yet another tower - especially given the nature of the jobs within that are perfectly suited to remote working!

I really don't know Canary Wharf as well as I should. I always get lost at street level, and really dislike the way the wind, no matter how light it might be anywhere else, just howls through those concrete canyons.

Cornish Cockney | 20.08.20 - 11:25 a.m. | #

Canary Wharf is divided into discrete parallel slices because that's how the docks used to be laid out.

Andrew S | 20.08.20 - 11:35 a.m. | #

I do approve that both the sign and the pigeon are social distancing.

West India Pier, initially looks substantial, but there's nothing really there, insert comment about modern Britain in the space below.

Still Anon | 20.08.20 - 3:00 p.m. | #

Recall walking round here in about 1993/4 and it was deserted then, albeit for very different reasons.

Will | 20.08.20 - 3:17 p.m. | #

I remember cycling round here in the early 80s to survey the area when my firm had been appointed Shopping Consultants to the London Docklands Development Corporation. At that time nobody I knew had been to Docklands, they didn't even know where it was, and hardly anybody lived there. And I was cycling because there was no public transport, just an occasional bus round the edge of the Isle of Dogs.
It was quite an adventure, and I'm glad I was involved in the initial planning.

amber | 20.08.20 - 8:40 p.m. | #











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