This is Churchill Place at the east side of Canary Wharf and was named after Winston Churchill. Canary Wharf is both a leading financial centre and a tourist destination in its own right and has some of London's talent and over 150,000 people work here It was built on the now disused West India Docks, which was one of the world's busiest docks from the start of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War Two.