London Districts: Canary Wharf (Documentary)

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Canary Wharf is a surprisingly peaceful place. It doesn't really have any major roads and the DLR system is fairly quiet. It has its own international airport, London City Airport serving over 30 destinations.

Canary Wharf is a major East London business district within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It's located on the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs and is one of the two main financial centres in the United Kingdom along with the City of London.

From 1802 to 1939, the area was one of the busiest docks in the world. After the 1960s, the port industry began to decline and all the docks closed by 1980. Today, about 1,000 ships still pass through the docks each month. The first new buildings of the Docklands regeneration were completed in 1991, starting with the most prominent symbol in this new world, number One Canada Square.

Stothert & Pitt were a British engineering company from Bath. They made all these Dock cranes you see around the quays which were used for heavy loading and unloading of ships during import and export operations. Most were destroyed in the war however.

Canary Wharf has three shopping malls: Canada Place, Cabot Place and Jubilee Place. The type of shops and bars you'll find there mostly reflect the salary of the workers in the district. The area is also home to the largest Waitrose in the country.

The Canary Wharf estate contains most of the tallest buildings in the country and One Canada Square was the tallest building in the UK until it was overtaken by The Shard in 2012. Over 100,000 people work in Canary Wharf inside corporate establishments such as Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, J.P.Morgan, KPMG and others. The average salary is also £100,000.

The Wharf adopts the 'Canary' part of its name for two reasons. Historically, it was heavily involved in a fruit trade with the Canary Islands which itself was named by the Spanish after they found lots of large canine's on the islands. Since the quay also sits on the Isle of Dogs, the name 'Canary' became a no-brainer for both the quay and the old fruit warehouse, now demolished.

Canary Wharf Tube station was designed by Norman Foster and opened in 1999 after 10 years work. It looks like a modern hobbit hole from the outside, but is big enough for One Canada Square to lie down inside of it.