Canary Wharf
/kəˌneəri ˈwɔːf/
/kəˌneri ˈwɔːrf/
- part of the Docklands area of east London, where modern offices were built in the 1980s. These include the very high 1 Canada Square, where several newspapers and banks have their offices. Many offices in Canary Wharf were damaged when an IRA bomb exploded there in 1996.
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