Commercial Road (part of the A13), 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. It runs from "Gardener's Corner" (on which stands Aldgate East tube station), through Stepney to the junction with Burdett Road (A1205), Limehouse from which point the route becomes the East India Dock Road. The straightness of the route suggests a Roman road, although it was built by the East India Company in the early nineteenth century as part of the development of London Docklands.
Commercial is an important artery connecting the traditional City of London with the more recently developed financial district at Canary Wharf.
Buildings en route include:
- Limehouse Town Hall
- St Anne's Limehouse
Other neaby roads:
- Cable Street
- Narrow Street
- The Highway
- Myrdle Street
Famous quotes containing the words commercial and/or road:
“It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“There is a road that turning always
Cuts off the country of Again.
Archers stand there on every side
And as it runs time’s deer is slain,
And lies where it has lain.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)