What is "dockland"

Usage examples of "dockland".

Mary took up her abacus and fled from the brothel, running wildly into the dockland night.

Cotton Lane in dockland Bermondsey was one of the many small cobbled streets which served the wharves, and it differed very little from other riverside through-ways.

Dockland is on fire and many homes in the East End have been blitzed to the ground.

Docklands the A13 road to Southend passes through Beckton and its sewage farms, across Barking Creek with its own barrier rising above the factory roofs and past the Ford engine works at Dagenham, before cutting inland to the M25 interchange at Dartford.

Outside the glass, the swollen river surges on between darkened banks, while to the east an ominous glare hangs over Docklands.

An orange-red sun rose in the east, where Docklands would one day be, and Richard watched the dawn breaking over forests and marshes that he kept thinking of as Greenwich and Kent and the sea.

For her tenth birthday Cassandra was given a camera and went walking on her own through the dead docklands, eating peanuts and taking pictures.

Mr Nelluss stood, his hands behind his back, looking out from the boardroom window of his towering corporation building at Docklands.

Telehouse was on the east side of the Docklands development area, east of Limehouse where Regent's Canal connected with the real docks that had once existed in Docklands, and east of the landmark Canary Wharf Tower.

Siobhan guessed that Cynthia Bessant had bought her warehouse conversion in the hope of being one of the early settlers in what would become Edinburgh’s equivalent of London’s Docklands.