Unseen Aerial Photos of 1980s Docklands
Canary Wharf... just before it grew skywards.
Welcome to Londonist: Time Machine, the newsletter about London history.
I have an absolute treat this week. A keen reader of the newsletter — who wishes to remain anonymous — has kindly sent me a selection of aerial photographs from 1984. He or she took these rare images at a pivotal moment in the history of London. They show the abandoned quaysides, de…