Word: silvertown
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...scuffle hunters," for a vacant berth. London's answer was to build the great docks at Wapping and the Isle of Dogs, as well as gigantic warehouses to store the city's burgeoning trading wealth. Work on the docks spawned whole new riverside communities in areas such as Silvertown, which flourished for 150 years before fading with the advent in the '70s of container ships too big even for the Thames. But Ackroyd is no damp-eyed nostalgist. In the redevelopment of the Docklands area, where a towering new financial district has grown up and where the old warehouses...