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52-630: The Millwall Freehold Land and Dock Company was a 19th-century company set up to develop the central area of the Isle of Dogs in London 's East End . Originally called the Millwall Canal Company , the act of Parliament for the incorporation of the company, the Millwall Canal, Wharfs and Graving Docks Act 1864 ( 27 & 28 Vict. c. cclv) received royal assent on 25 July 1864. The plans that led to

104-575: A 1445 illuminated manuscript in the British Library John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury is depicted presenting a Book of Romances to Queen Margaret of Anjou , with a short-legged and long-eared white hound standing behind him, which serves to identify him symbolically. It is very similar to a 15th-century depiction on a ceiling at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, made following the marriage of Sir Henry Vernon (1445–1515) to Ann Talbot, daughter of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury . The Talbot and

156-625: A Unilateral Declaration of Independence. They even applied to join the United Nations, warning that UN peacekeeping troops might be needed to keep the Greater London Council from evicting them. While successive Labour and Conservative governments proposed a number of action plans during the 1970s, it was not until 1981 that the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was established to redevelop

208-591: A decline. However, parts of the launching slipway and plate works have been preserved in situ and may be seen close to Masthouse Terrace Pier . The urbanisation of the Isle of Dogs took place in the 19th century following the construction of the West India Docks , which opened in 1802. This heralded the area's most successful period, when it became an important centre for trade. The East India Docks were subsequently opened in 1806, followed by Millwall Dock in 1868. By

260-474: A practice of various watersports, like sailing , kayaking , windsurfing and standup paddleboarding . Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre is one of the main reference spots for watersports fans. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the centre in 2017. The Isle of Dogs was the title of an early play by Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe , briefly performed in 1597 and then thoroughly suppressed as slanderous . T.S. Eliot 's The Waste Land contains

312-461: A purpose-built factory at Barlby Road, Kensington, London and sold as Talbots until 1937. It is now used on the logo of the Talbot Owners' Club. The arms of Bournemouth University have three Talbots on the shield, a reference to there being a University Campus on Talbot Heath. "The Talbot" (or "Talbot Arms") is most familiar as a name of English public houses or inns and is usually depicted on

364-556: Is Canary Wharf on the Jubilee line . Key areas including Regent's Park , The West End , Westminster , South Bank , Millennium Dome and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park , are all within 20 minutes of Canary Wharf by Tube. The DLR runs north–south through the Isle of Dogs. Docklands Light Railway stations are Canary Wharf , Heron Quays , South Quay , Crossharbour , Mudchute and Island Gardens . Key areas including

416-453: Is a list of purchases, which includes: A hose for the Mary George, in dock at the Isle of Dogs, 10d The 1898 edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable attributes the name: "So called from being the receptacle of the greyhounds of Edward III . Some say it is a corruption of the Isle of Ducks, and that it is so called in ancient records from the number of wild fowl inhabiting

468-542: Is quite plausible that from these beginnings the name "Talbot" was extended to any large, heavy, white scent hound, and from there helped to establish a breed or type. It was certainly similar to the Bloodhound ("white" is given as one of the colours of the Bloodhound in the 16th and 17th centuries) as regards size, and as regards use to a leash-hound. As earliest references to this dog are much later than those to Bloodhounds, it cannot convincingly be regarded as an ancestor of

520-470: Is used as an example of a hound name in George Turberville's 1575 work The Noble Art of Venerie or Huntyng . By the 17th century it clearly existed as a breed or type. Large, heavy, slow hounds were "talbot-like", whatever their colour, though the "milk white" was "the true talbot". In his poem "The Chase", published in 1735, William Somervile describes the use of " lime-hounds " (leash hounds) on

572-582: The City of London , Tower Hill and Greenwich are all within 20 minutes of the Isle of Dogs by DLR. The Elizabeth line 's Canary Wharf station opened in 2022. Situated at the north of the Island, it provides high-frequency, fast connections to the heart of the West End , Paddington Station , Heathrow Airport and Abbey Wood . Regular commuter boat services serve both Masthouse Terrace Pier and Canary Wharf Pier on

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624-505: The Port of London Authority took control of the docks. With the docks stretching across from East to West with locks at each end, the Isle of Dogs could now almost be described as a genuine island. Dock workers settled on the "island" as the docks grew in importance, and by 1901, 21,000 people lived there, largely dependent on the river trade on the Isle as well as in Greenwich and Deptford across

676-489: The 1880s, the casual employment system caused Dock workers to unionise under Ben Tillett and John Burns . This led to a demand for 6d per hour (2.5p), and an end to casual labour in the docks. After a bitter struggle, the London Dock Strike of 1889 was settled with victory for the strikers, and established a national movement for the unionisation of casual workers. The three dock systems were unified in 1909 when

728-516: The 1980 British film The Long Good Friday , and the Isle of Dogs is the primary location of the 2007 horror film 28 Weeks Later , where it is the only secure and quarantined area in all of Britain suitable for recivilisation after a virus epidemic kills the population of the country. Talbot (dog) In medieval times, "Talbot" was a common name for an individual hound, as used before 1400 in Chaucer 's " The Nun's Priest's Tale " (line 3383), and

780-529: The Bloodhound. The Talbot seems to have existed as a breed, a little distinct from the Bloodhound, until the end of the 18th century, after which, like two other large breeds to which it may have been related, the Northern Hound and the Southern Hound , it disappeared. Some early dog-shows apparently offered classes for Talbots, but attracted no entrants, so they were dropped. The mayor and corporation of

832-571: The Canary Wharf Tower, is the second tallest habitable building in Britain at 244 metres (801 ft). The peninsula is an area of social extremes, comprising some of the most prosperous and most deprived areas of the country; in 2004, nearby Blackwall was the 81st most deprived ward in England out of over 8,000, while the presence of Canary Wharf gives the area one of the highest average incomes in

884-545: The Greenwich Peninsula. Between 1986 and 1992 it enjoyed a brief formal existence, as the name Isle of Dogs was applied to one of seven neighbourhoods to which power was devolved from the council. The neighbourhood was later abolished. It was the site of the highest concentration of council housing in England but is now best known as the location of the Canary Wharf office complex. One Canada Square , also known as

936-600: The Greyhound were, apparently, the only hounds used in English heraldry , and it could be that the Talbot originated as an emblematic or heraldic hound. References to this heraldic Talbot seem to be earlier than any references to a real dog. The Talbot appears in many coats of arms , for instance in later ones of the Earls of Shrewsbury, in which two Talbots appear as supporters . [1] It

988-481: The Isle of Dogs – Cubitt Town Junior School, Arnhem Wharf, Harbinger School and St Edmunds. There was also an independent primary school, River House Montessori, located near South Quay, but this closed in 2024. George Green's School is a secondary school and Specialist Humanities School at the southern tip of the island. Canary Wharf College is a free school on the Island which covers primary and secondary education. The nearest London Underground station

1040-520: 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, locals increasingly referred to the area as The Island . This area includes Millwall , Cubitt Town , and Blackwall . The south of the isle opposite Greenwich was once known as North Greenwich , now applied to the area around the Millennium Dome on

1092-432: The Isle of Dogs. The Thames Clippers provides regular commuter services to Woolwich Arsenal Pier , Greenwich Pier in the east, and the City of London including St. Katherine Docks, Tower Bridge , HMS  Belfast , Greater London Authority building, Tate Modern , Blackfriars , as well as the West End of London in the west on the commuter service. There is also a connecting shuttle service to Rotherhithe and

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1144-616: The Isle of Dogs. It became part of an enterprise zone , which covered 1.95 km of land and encompassed the West India, Millwall and East India Docks. New housing, office space and transport infrastructure were built. This included the Docklands Light Railway and later the Jubilee line extension, which eventually brought access to the London Underground to the area for the first time. Since its construction in 1987–1991,

1196-520: The Isle of Dogs. Records show that ships preparing to carry the English royal household to Calais in 1520 docked at the southern bank of the island. The name Isle of Dogges occurs in the Thamesis Descriptio of 1588, applied to a small island in the south-western part of the peninsula. The name is next applied to the Isle of Dogs Farm (originally known as Pomfret Manor ) shown on a map of 1683. At

1248-403: The Isle of Dogs”. They were protesting the lack of social services provided by the Greater London Council, as well as the mass unemployment among former dockyard workers. Led by Labour councilor Ted Johns, the inhabitants of the island barricaded the main roads, isolating it from the rest of London for ten days. On 10 March, Tower Hamlets Council presented plans for investment and improvement of

1300-467: The Manor, Hamlet, Parish and, for a time, the wider borough of Poplar . The name had no official status until the 1987 creation of the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council . It has been known locally as simply "the Island" since the 19th century. The whole area was once known as Stepney Marsh ; Anton van den Wyngaerde 's "Panorama of London" dated 1543 depicts and refers to

1352-506: The Scottish Borders to catch thieves, obviously referring to the Bloodhound and the sleuth hound , but adds that the (white) Talbot was the "prime" example of this type of hound. The origin of both the name and the animal is uncertain. In a quotation from about 1449, the king referred to John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury as "Talbott, oure good dogge", perhaps as a play on his name, or in allusion to that family's heraldic badge . In

1404-547: The Tate to Tate service from Tate Modern to Tate Britain via London Eye . From Summer 2007, the service has been enhanced with express boats from central London to the O2 Arena (former Millennium Dome ). The Thames Path National Trail runs along the riverside. At the southern end of the Isle of Dogs, the Greenwich foot tunnel provides pedestrian access to Greenwich , across

1456-539: The Thames estuary as inning . The reclaimed land was below high water, protected by earthen banks. These banks if not properly kept up were liable to be breached. This happened in 1448, drowning the land for 40 years. In 1660, the river started to break through the neck of the peninsula, initiating meander cutoff . This was arrested by human intervention, but it left a 5-acre lake called Poplar Gut , which appears on John Rocque 's 1746 Map of London and ten miles around in

1508-563: The UK. Lincoln Plaza was the 2016 winner of the Carbuncle Cup for the year's "worst new building" and The Times described it as "mediocre at best, ugly at worst". The Isle of Dogs is situated some distance downriver from the City of London . It was originally marsh, being several feet below water at high tide. In the Middle Ages it was made available for human habitation by a process known in

1560-536: The area has been dominated by the expanding Canary Wharf development with over 437,000 square metres (4,700,000 sq ft) of office and retail space having been created; 93,000 now work in Canary Wharf alone. The Island achieved notoriety in 1993 when Derek Beackon of the British National Party became a councillor for Millwall ward, in a by-election . This was the culmination of years when race

1612-511: The building of the Docklands Light Railway in 1987, the only public transport accessing and exiting the Island consisted of buses using its perimeter roads. These were frequently and substantially delayed by the movement of up to four bridges which allowed ships access to the West India Docks and Millwall Docks. The insular nature of the Island caused its separateness from the rest of London, and its unique nature. During World War II ,

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1664-452: The county town of Stafford, Staffordshire. It used to be used in all school stationery and was displayed as white on a navy blue background on ties and jumpers in the school uniform. It was removed when Weston Road became an academy. The Talbot also appears as a supporter in the arms of the Marquess of Sligo . The Earl of Talbot and Shrewsbury coat of arms was used on Talbot cars manufactured at

1716-531: The docks were a key target for the German Luftwaffe and were heavily bombed. A number of local civilians were killed in the bombing and extensive destruction was caused on the ground, with many warehouses being destroyed and much of the dock system being put out of action for an extended period. Unexploded bombs from this period continue to be discovered today. Anti-aircraft batteries were based on Mudchute Farm; their concrete bases remain today. After

1768-541: The extract reproduced in this article. One road led across the Marshes to an ancient ferry, at Ferry Road. There was rich grazing on the marsh, and cattle were slaughtered in fields known as the Killing Fields , south of Poplar High Street. The western side of the island was known as Marsh Wall , and the district became known as Millwall with the building of the docks, and from the number of windmills constructed along

1820-577: The first use of the term. Importantly, this type of official declaration did not require a formal agreement between the new state and the state it was seceding from. The daring feat of the Isle of Dogs would inspire other independence movements within London. This included the "Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia" in 1977. When squatters inhabiting two streets (Freston Road and Bramley Road) in West London were threatened with eviction, they officially issued

1872-530: The former dockyard workers and caused serious social deprivation. Ted Johns, a local community campaigner, and his supporters, in protest at the lack of social provision from the state, made a unilateral declaration of independence for the area from the United Kingdom as the Republic of the Isle of Dogs and set up an 'Island Council' with Johns himself as its elected president, and for a single day in 1970 blocked

1924-625: The foundation of the Millwall Freehold Land and Dock Company were first devised by Nathaniel Fenner and Robert Fairlie . Isle of Dogs The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula . It is bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London , England, which includes the Cubitt Town , Millwall and Canary Wharf districts. The area was historically part of

1976-641: The inn for the illiterate. An inn called The Talbot in Iwerne Minster , Dorset, U.K., showed as its sign a black dog, apparently the crest of the Bower family, who owned the manor from the late Middle Ages till 1876. The "Talbot Inn" in Mells, Somerset is an allusion to the arms of the Horner family of Mells Manor : Sable, three talbots argent , the arms being possibly a play on the surname as hunting hounds are controlled by

2028-415: The island, and with this, just ten days after the barricades first went up, the independence of the Isle of Dogs came to an end. The soil is alluvial and silty in nature, underlaid by clay or mud , with a peat layer in places. The first known written mention of the Isle of Dogs is in the ‘Letters & Papers of Henry VIII ’. In Volume 3: 1519–1523. 2 October 1520. No. 1009 – ‘Shipping’, there

2080-459: The largest ship of that time, the SS Great Eastern designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , was launched from the yard of Messrs Scott, Russell & Co, of Millwall. The 211 metres (692 ft) length was too big for the river so the ship had to be launched sideways. Due to the technical difficulties of the launch this was the last big ship to be built on the Island and the industry fell into

2132-581: The lines "The barges wash / Drifting logs / Down Greenwich reach / Past the Isle of Dogs." In modern times the Isle of Dogs has provided locations for many blockbuster films, including the opening scenes of the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough , and more recently Batman Begins , The Constant Gardener , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , and Love Actually . The Isle of Dogs featured heavily in

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2184-499: The market town of Sudbury, Suffolk , has for arms: Sable, a talbot hound sejeant argent on a chief gules a lion passant guardant between two fleurs-de-lys or (a white hound sitting erect). The crest is A talbot head and neck erased . Such a hound is also used as a logo for a local school and for many local sports clubs. The dog is always depicted with its tongue protruding. This refers to Simon de Sudbury (c.1316–1381), Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England , born in

2236-592: The marshes." Other sources discount this, believing these stories to all derive from the antiquarian John Strype , and believe it might come from one of the following: Canary Wharf , located in the Isle of Dogs, took its name from sea trade with the Canary Islands , which were named in Latin as Canariae Insulae ("Dog Islands"). The Talbot dog in the coat of arms of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets represents

2288-413: The river to the south and west. The Isle of Dogs was connected to the rest of London by the London and Blackwall Railway , opened in 1840 and progressively extended thereafter. In 1902, the ferry to Greenwich was replaced by the construction of the Greenwich foot tunnel , and Island Gardens park was laid out in 1895, providing views across the river. The London and Blackwall Railway closed in 1926. Until

2340-428: The river. National Cycle Network route 1 runs through the foot tunnel (although cycles must not be ridden in the tunnel itself). The nearest airport is London City Airport , which is 25 minutes away from Canary Wharf by DLR. There is also a helipad situated on the west of the Island and next to Ferguson's Wharf, which is privately run by Vanguard. The presence of docks, some of a considerable size, has enabled

2392-577: The same time, the area was variously known as Isle of Dogs or the Blackwell levels . By 1855, it was incorporated within the parish of Poplar under the aegis of the Poplar Board of Works. This was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar on its formation in 1900. In March 1970, the Isle of Dogs officially issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the UK as the “Republic of

2444-439: The signs as a large white hound with hanging ears, sometimes with spots. Heraldic inn signs usually displayed the arms or heraldic badges of the lord of the manor in which they were situated, who was probably the owner of the freehold interest, together with that of most other houses in the village. As the Talbot family possessed countless manors throughout England, the sign would have been well-known. Such signs helped to identify

2496-663: The top of the flood defence. In 1802, the West India Docks began to be developed on the Isle of Dogs. Beginning in 1812 the Poplar and Greenwich Ferry Roads Company installed tolls on the East Ferry Road. These proved to be unpopular and after many years of lobbying the Metropolitan Board of Works bought the company and abolished the tolls in 1885. The Docks brought with them many associated industries, such as flour and sugar processing, and also ship building. On 31 January 1858

2548-575: The town, whose coat of arms was A talbot hound sejeant within a bordure engrailed , as is visible sculpted in stone on a wall in the nave of the Canterbury Cathedral . The arms of the Carter family of Castle Martin (see Carter-Campbell of Possil ) include a Talbot. The arms of the Earls Waldegrave have supporters of two Talbots. The Talbot Hound was also the symbol of Weston Road High School in

2600-446: The two swing-bridges providing the only access to the area by road. On 10 March, Tower Hamlets Council presented plans for investment and improvement of the island, and with this, just ten days after the barricades first went up, the independence of the Isle of Dogs came to an end. The Isle of Dogs’ short-lived independence came in the wake of Rhodesia’s issuing of a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965. This marked

2652-502: The war, the docks underwent a brief resurgence and were even upgraded in 1967. However, with the advent of containerisation , which the docks could not handle, they became obsolete soon afterwards. The docks closed progressively during the 1970s, with the last – the West India and Millwall docks – closing down in 1980. This left the area in a severely dilapidated state, with large areas being derelict and abandoned. The Isle of Dogs' economic problems led to mass unemployment among

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2704-550: Was a prominent issue in local politics, especially with regards to allocation of housing. Labour regained the ward in the full council election of May 1994, and held all three seats until a further by-election in September 2004. On 9 February 1996, the IRA detonated a truck bomb near South Quay DLR station on the Isle of Dogs that killed two people and injured more than a hundred others. There are four state primary schools located on

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