Heron Quays

Heron Quays forms part of the Canary Wharf area the Docklands, east London. It has a Docklands Light Railway station, which was moved south after the development was expanded.

Heron Quays was originally an area of dockside and warehousing which separated South Dock and Middle (Export) Dock of the West India Docks, completed in 1802. By the 1970s the area was derelict.

The Heron Quays area was one of the first areas of The Isle of Dogs redeveloped. The western half of the site was redeveloped into low-rise commercial/office units in the mid 1980s.

On 27 June 1982, Captain Harry Gee landed a De Havilland Canada Dash 7 aircraft on Heron Quay to demonstrate the feasibility of the STOLport project - the forerunner to the London City Airport project.

Heron Quays DLR station opened in 1987.

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Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply
Farm Place, W8 Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT	Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply
Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply

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West India Quay West India Quay is a leisure complex on the Isle of Dogs.

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Albert Place, E14

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Alpha Road, E14

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Bellmouth Promenade West, E14 Bellmouth Promenade West is a road in the E14 postcode area (Canary Wharf)

Bellmouth Promenade West, E14

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Canada Square, E14

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Canary Riverside, E14

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Canary Wharf Pier, E14

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Chandlers Mews, E14

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Columbus Courtyard, E14

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Cooks Close, E14

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Crossrail Place, E14

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Heron Quays Road, E14

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Park Row, E14

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po box 4, E14

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Reuters Plaza, E14

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Seacon Tower, E14

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Sirocco Tower, E14

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South Colonnade, E14

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South Quay Plaza, E14

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South Quay Square, E14

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Spinnaker House, E14

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St. Lukes Mews, E14

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Strafford Street, E14

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The Quarterdeck, E14

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Tideway House, E14

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Tobago Street, E14

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Tooke Street, E14

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Topmast Point, E14

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Upper Bank Street, E14

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Vanguard Building, E14

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Wallbrook Building, E14

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Water Street, E14

Waterman Building, E14 Waterman Building is a block on Westferry Road

Waterman Building, E14

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West India Avenue, E14

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West Wintergarden, E14

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Westferry Circus, E14

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Whitby House, E14

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Wren Landing, E14

Wyndham House, E14 Wyndham House is sited on Marsh Wall

Wyndham House, E14

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Poplar (1910) TUM image id: 1556886600 Licence:	Poplar Baths (2005) Credit: Gordon Joly TUM image id: 1582639714 Licence: CC BY 2.0	George V and Queen Mary during their visit to Limehouse Town Hall on 25 May 1935 TUM image id: 1684942537 Licence:	Alpha Grove (1962) Alpha Grove (previously Alpha Road) runs from Strafford Street to Tiller Road on the Isle of Dogs. Alpha Grove ran right through to the West India Dock fence dock - its cranes can be seen at the end of the road. When built in the 1800s, Alpha Road followed a section of the old island path, Dolphin Lane. The road running across the view in the photo is Byng Street. TUM image id: 1489324044 Licence:	1 Cabot Square Credit: Jack8080 TUM image id: 1481482264 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Two Men on a Bench is one of two sculptures in Canary Wharf by Giles Penny. Credit: www.walkmeblog.com TUM image id: 1685539374 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The River Thames looking west as photographed from the restaurant at One Canada Place (2018) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1686915908 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Quadrangle Stores have now been turned into the Cannon Workshops (2020) Credit: Wiki Commons/Hjamesberglen TUM image id: 1685543386 Licence: CC BY 2.0	East India Road, Poplar It takes it name from the former East India Docks and its route was constructed between 1806 and 1812 as a branch of the Commercial Road. The road begins in the west at Burdett Road and continues to the River Lea bridge in the east in Canning Town. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1562851965 Licence:	Chinatown, Limehouse (1930s) TUM image id: 1685034358 Licence:
Pennyfields, Poplar (around 1900) TUM image id: 1605021763 Licence: CC BY 2.0	’Blood Alley’ in the West India Docks, circa 1930. This photograph was taken at the North Quay shows a gang of dockers trucking bags of sugar beneath an awning of washed sacks that are hung out for drying at. ‘Blood Alley’ was the nickname given to roadway between the transit sheds and sugar warehouses because handling the sacks of sticky West Indian sugar badly chafed and cracked the dockers’ skin. This quay is now home to the Museum of London Docklands Credit: PLA collection/Museum of London TUM image id: 1685546420 Licence:	91-97 Three Colt Street, Limehouse (1923) Assuming this was photographed just before demolition as the supporting prop looks dodgy. The greengrocer is using a pram as a market stall. Credit: English Heritage TUM image id: 1623947100 Licence:	Two unidentified girls, with tobacconist in the background on Emmett Street, Limehouse (1952) Credit: Tate Britain/Nigel Henderson TUM image id: 1651158491 Licence:	Children playing street cricket in Alpha Road, Millwall in August 1938. A ship - the Union Castle line “Dunbar Castle” can be seen in the background. The photo was taken close to its corner with Manilla Street. In the background, behind the dock fence are the West India Docks. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images TUM image id: 1685036340 Licence: