Canary Wharf
The Canary Wharf business district of East London (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"]) was home to Torchwood Tower. (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday) To members of the public such as Jackie Tyler, the Torchwood Tower building itself was known as "Canary Wharf". (TV: Army of Ghosts) It was located in the borough of Tower Hamlets,[nb 1] and was part of the Docklands area of London. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"95","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})
Nearby buildings were the HSBC Tower and the Citigroup Centre. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
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It was in the Docklands area of London. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"95","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) During a visit to the 1970s, Tom noted that Canary Wharf hadn't been built yet. (PROSE: Verdigris)
During the 1990s, Veronica Stackmore's uncle worked at Canary Wharf. (COMIC: Imaginary Enemies)
For some time before and after the the change-over from 1999 to 2000, the tower was occupied by Ashley Chapel and his company, Ashley Chapel Logistics, though there was little affluence out of the corporate offices. For a brief time after the change-over, due to Chapel's use of the Millennium Codex, a triangular area of London was warped by the interaction of the laws of three different universes into an expanse called the Great Kingdom. One Canada Place marked one of the triangle's corners. (PROSE: Millennial Rites)
In the early morning of 1 January 2005, the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor, flew west across Canary Wharf whilst clinging by his fingers from his TARDIS's door sill, before climbing back aboard and being thrown nearly nine years back in time to April 1996. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
A major battle between Daleks and Cybermen took place there in 2007. (TV: Doomsday)
Thomas Brewster and Polly Wright flew past Canary Wharf in 2009. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)
Lyme Industries' headquarters was located in Canary Wharf. (AUDIO: Power Cell)
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The Doctor's TARDIS materialised at the Canary Wharf stop of the London Underground in an alternative version of 2006, in which London had suffered major destruction. (PROSE: The Time Travellers)
As with their counterparts in the Doctor's universe, the Torchwood of Pete's World was based at Torchwood Tower in Canary Wharf. It was briefly visited by the Tenth Doctor in 2010, who looked over Canary Wharf with Pete Tyler. (TV: Doomsday)
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Facing the Cybermen on a Mondasian colony ship, the Twelfth Doctor recalled defeating them in Canary Wharf among other places. (TV: The Doctor Falls)
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- ↑ The map of London boroughs in Revenge of the Slitheen matches up with the birds-eye view of London when Clara is shown dangling from the TARDIS in Face the Raven. Canary Wharf can be seen on the bank of the Thames - placing it in Tower Hamlets according to Mr Smith's map, just as the river bends south towards Greenwich. This definitively places Canary Wharf in London Borough of Tower Hamlets.File:Finding Trap Streets - Face The Raven - Doctor Who - BBCCanary Wharf on the bank of the Thames, shown as Clara dangles from the TARDIS. (TV: Face the Raven)
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