Showing posts with label Canary Wharf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canary Wharf. Show all posts

Monday, 27 October 2014

Canary Wharf from below

Sunday 26 September 2014, a group from the Cambridge Camera club took off to explore London brilliantly guided by Alan Clark. Well, it may have been September 1777 when Samuel Johnson and Boswell discussed the fact that Johnson hated spending time alone, and consequently was always going out and enjoying what London had to offer.  The quote "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" still holds for many of us. I had a great day.

We started at Canary Wharf arriving on the DLR and the first challenge was to find means of paying as it is easier if one has an Oyster card with some loaded rupees. Most of the shops were underground and we did not get stopped from taking photographs.

A view of Canary Wharf from Greenwich

I can't believe that it was in 1987 the Canadian company Olympia and York agreed to construct a major office development on the Isle of Dogs, with construction commencing in 1988. It is my first visit but not the last.