The London market at Billingsgate, now situated close to Canary Wharf in Docklands, London, deals in what?
Billingsgate Fish Market oyster-wives. The market is depicted during Tudor times in Rosemary Sutcliff's 1951 children's historical novel "The Armourer's House". The writer George Orwell worked at Billingsgate in the 1930s, as did the Kray twins in the 1950s. In 1982, the fish market was relocated to a new building complex on the Isle of Dogs in Poplar, close to Canary Wharf and Blackwall. The freehold owner of the site is the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, but the City of London Corporation still runs the market; they pay an annual ground rent stipulated in an agreement between the two councils as "the
London Docklands Canary Wharf was proposed, and similar development was already underway on Canary Wharf itself, Limehouse Studios being the most famous occupant. Canary Wharf was far from trouble-free; the property slump of the early 1990s halted further development for several years. Developers found themselves, for a time, saddled with property that they were unable to sell or let. The Docklands historically had poor transport connections. This was addressed by the LDDC with the construction of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), which connected the Docklands with the City. According to Transport for London, the owner of the project, it was a remarkably