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    The West India Docks are a series of three docks, quaysides, and warehouses built to import goods from, and export goods and occasionally passengers to...
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    The docks, designed by engineer Ralph Walker, were located to the north-east of the West India Docks. They were based on the existing Brunswick Dock, which...
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    the busiest docks in the world. West India Docks was primarily developed by Robert Milligan (c. 1746–1809) who set up the West India Dock Company. The...
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  • the northern suburbs of London with the East and West India Docks further east. The main east to west route is now part of London Overground's North London...
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    Midlands. The West India Docks, built on the Isle of Dogs, was the first large wet docks built in the Port of London. Between 1800 and 1802 a wet dock area of...
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    West India Dock Road is a road in Limehouse in London's East End. It connects Commercial Road with the entrance to the West India Docks. Ralph Walker...
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    Isle of Dogs (section Docks)
    represents the Isle of Dogs. Following the building of the Docks (especially the West India Docks and the adjacent City Canal), and with an increasing population...
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    West India Quay is an area in the London Docklands, London, England. It is immediately to the north of the West India Docks and Canary Wharf. The warehouse...
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    Crossrail Place is a complex built in the North Dock of the West India Docks in London's Canary Wharf, as part of the railway project Crossrail. It contains...
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    Robert Milligan (merchant) (category London docks)
    played in establishing the West India docks, "the directors and proprietors"..."by unanimous vote" (per its plaque) of the docks company erected a statue...
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    at the West India Docks in London, in 1813. Milligan was a merchant, and was largely responsible for the construction of the West India Docks. After being...
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    floors 9–12. Floors 13-33 house 158 apartments. The tower overlooks West India Docks and the Canary Wharf estate. In 2001, planning permission was gained...
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  • Extension Railway, opened from Millwall Junction to Millwall Docks to serve the West India Docks better. A year later the line was extended to North Greenwich...
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  • Port of London (category London docks)
    included West India Docks (1802), East India Docks (1803, originating from the Brunswick Dock of 1790), London Docks (1805), Surrey Commercial Docks (1807...
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    the South Dock of the West India Docks; the current station platforms sit astride the channel connecting Millwall Dock to the West India Docks. The original...
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    West India Docks, though it was located on the north side of the northernmost of the three docks; the LBR was later extended to a new Millwall Docks station...
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    Royal Docks is an area and a ward in the London Borough of Newham in the London Docklands in East London, England. The area is named after three docks – the...
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    landowners built enclosed docks with better security and facilities than the Pool's wharves. Even after the construction of off-river docks, the Pool of London...
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    Newham and Greenwich. The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world's largest port. After the docks closed, the area had become...
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    in Docklands), based in West India Quay, explains the history of the River Thames, the growth of Port of London and the docks' historical link to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Royal Victoria Dock
    The Royal Victoria Dock is the largest of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands. Although, the structure...
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  • South Dock may refer to: South Dock (West India Docks), formerly known as South West India Dock, Isle of Dogs, London, England South Dock, Rotherhithe...
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    the dispute. The dock strike began over a dispute about 'plus' money during the unloading of the Lady Armstrong in the West India Docks. 'Plus' money was...
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    the world. The West India Docks which were opened in 1802 were followed by the London Docks, East India Docks, and St Katherine's Dock in the years afterwards...
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  • Thumbnail for Poplar Dock
    Poplar Dock is a small dock in east London. It connects to the Blackwall Basin of the West India Docks and, although independent of this system, has never...
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    dock with three side branches named East, Central and West Branch docks. Between the tidal basin and Main Dock were two dry docks. The original docks...
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    Chinatown, most closely associated with Limehouse. The West India Dock and other local docks had all closed by the end of 1980, so the British Government...
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    of Middle Dock, West India Docks, is directly opposite the main exit of Canary Wharf Jubilee line station and can be seen across the dock from there...
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    Peninsula. GreenwichPeninsula.co.uk OS 1:2500 map of 1867, Republished as West India Docks 1867, The Godfrey Edition, Alan Godfrey Maps, 1991, Gateshead, ISBN 0-85054-466-1...
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    merged with the West India Dock Company. The docks were taken over by the Port of London Authority in 1909 and closed in 1967. The East India College was...
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