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Description: | This high angled view looks across the station construction site at Canada Water Underground station from the block of flats called Columbia Point. The tower of Canary Wharf stands on the horizon.
The round drum of this station symbolises the 'pivot' of the Jubilee line where passengers can change to the East London line. This was the first of the extension stations to be designed, and puts the West End and Docklands within easier reach of travellers from Deptford and Peckham.
Since the mid-1980s, London's East End has gone through a period of rapid renewal led by the Docklands Development. Where there was once a run-down area with the remnants of the docks, now there is a large commercial district with swathes of luxury flats built to house highly paid City workers. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 28 Oct 1997 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : E C Dixon | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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