The Pool of London included the area upstream of Tower Bridge, upto London Bridge, where cargoe ships could dock alongside river wharfs with warehouses directly loaded from the ships. This area has been transformed by the ugly grey boring brutalist offices of More London, one or two warehouses have been converted to add a smidgen of Heritage-d landscape. However, the character has changed utterly, from a Historic Landscape Type of river port wharfs to one of comercial offices - as the economy has been subsumed into an aspect of financial services. London's role as the omphalos of a world empire to offshore banking centre sui generis has been the driver of these changes
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