West India Quay is a shopping complex [1] in Canary Wharf and is the northern half of the West India Docks.
Description[]
West India Quay is a largely retail and entertainment area, to which primaily provides amenities for local workers and residents in nearby Canary Wharf after being redeveloped from a dock with the surviving warehouses of the North Quay have been rebranded ‘West India Quay’.[2]
West India Quay can trace it begnnings as part of the Port of London, which was used to import sugar, rum and coffee from Caribbean slave plantations, and it development was funded in part by profits from slavery. Robert Milligan, was the driving force behind the docks, which were designed to make the import of slave-grown goods more efficient.[3]
Geography[]
West India Quay lies to the north of Canary Wharf, and was a key part in the redevelopment of the London Docklands, and is bounded to the north by the Docklands Light Railway and to the south by the West India Docks (North Dock).[4]
More information on the Wikipedia page [5].