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The Docklands & London’s East End Tour

Reserve this tour now on the Bookings & Enquiries page.Traditionally encompassing London’s poorer districts, the East End has been reinventing itself in recent years, and areas like Shoreditch, Hoxton and now Hackney are awash in trendy restaurants, bars, clubs and pop-up shops. The Docklands, once the workhorse of world’s busiest port and the hub of the British Empire, is now London’s ‘other’ financial centre. A great way to tour part of it is on the Docklands Light Railway, a driverless elevated train. View slideshow ↓

Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf
The 800ft (244m) office block, until recently the tallest in the UK, is the focal point of 21st-century London, sitting atop a mall and surrounded by landscaped gardens. Creative Commons | David Bertho
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Waves of French Protestant, Jewish and Bangladeshi immigrants flocked to this district over the centuries. Both Stalin and writer George Orwell called this working-class cauldron home for a time. Jack the Ripper stalked and savaged his victims here, but it also boasts kinder places like the seminal Whitechapel Gallery and a still-functioning 16th-century bell foundry where both Big Ben and the Liberty bells were cast. Creative Commons | Evo Flash
Brick Lane
Brick Lane
Now star of both screen and print, Banglatown's main thoroughfare is lined with curry houses, clubs, vintage clothing stores, popup shops and some of the finest Georgian architecture in London. Creative Commons | Garry Knight
Thames Shoreline at Wapping
Wapping
Once a den of drunken sailors, prostitutes and slave traders, this atmospheric district of converted 19th-century warehouses counts a trio of riverside pubs and Execution Dock, the spot where pirates were hanged and left to rot. Creative Commons | David Bleasdale
Tayyabs restaurant in Whitechapel
Ethnic Eating
East London is paradise for those in search of authentic ethnic food. For the best Pakistani and Bangladeshi food, head for Whitechapel; Dalston is a `mini-Istanbul’; you can’t beat the Vietnamese of Mare St in Hackney. Creative Commons | Ewan Munro

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