The Tower Hotel was designed by the Renton Howard Wood Partnership and opened in September 1973.
The riverside access has been improved for commuter and tourist traffic. The entrance to the docks is just beyond the hotel.
The hotel has been modernised and upgraded and is now a Guoman Hotel.In the foreground is one of the latest river commuter catamrans which travel from Greenwich upriver to Charing Cross.
The remains of the Telford warehouses are to the right, the trade centre to the left and beyond the restored Ivory House.
The Telford warehouses having been destroyed by fire were rebuilt using the original metal pillars. Ivory house can be seen on the other side of the basin and the World Trade centre is to the left.
The trade centre has been replaced recently by the new office block, Tower Bridge House, on the left with restaurants and bars beneath serving both local businesses and tourists.
The original sailing barges are moored alongside Telford Warehouses awaiting redevlopment.
The Telford warehouses rebuilt using the original metal pillars have become “International House” a modern office and gallery space.
Beyond International house and the old barges is the latest office development of Tower Bridge House with restaurants and bars beneath,
The original Thomas Telford warehouses unoccupied and abandoned and the new World trade centre heralding the start of the regeneration in this dock
Restored Telford warehouses which have become International House offices and workspaces, and the newly built Commodity Quay to the right behind the pub tables and newly berthed yachts.
From the new Zizzi’s restaurant the view across the busy St.Katharine’s Marina to International House and the the new Tower Bridge House offices and restaurants beneath.
The floodlit marina has become another of London’s tourist attractions.
Ivory House which used to store valuable cargoes from the east has become luxury flats for the famous, restaurants, shops and and entertainment venue. The original mechanical Telford bridge is still in use to cross the channel.
the old bridge still in use and the restaurants and Starbucks getting more custom.
In 2018 the original mechanical Telford bridge stands on the dock alongside the new electric bridge giving access from Dicken’s Inn to Ivory House whose luxury apartments are now occupied by celebrities and business folk from around the world.
St Katharine's yacht haven packed with many small boats and about to see the construction of blocks of residential apartments.
The apartments have been finshed and occupied St Katharine's yacht haven is home to boat owners and city workers.
The yacht haven has become a marina and continues to expand with the City Quay residential development around the dock, the central large block of Quadrant House towering above has a grand Waitrose beneath.
Looking N.E.over St.Katharine's basin with Ivory House and the World Trade centre to the left.
St. Katharine's yacht haven with new apartments of the City Quay development surrounding it and the restored Telford warehouse Commodity Quay, now offices, to the left next to Ivory House.
St. Katharine's yacht haven with new apartments surrounding it and the restored warehouse Commodity Quay, now offices, to the left next to Ivory House.Behind Commodity Quay can be seen one of the new city office blocks, “the radiator”.
This view from St.Katharine's dock basin to Tower Bridge in the west shows the original old wooden brewery with work commencing to restore and convert it into a pub.
The old warehouse is now a fully functioning pub, the Dickens Inn, and the yacht haven has been developed and is now very busy and almost fully occupied.
St.Katharines dock basin looking west to Tower Bridge showing the Dickens Inn reconstruction.The original barges being uded to carry construction materials for the new housing and offices.
St.Katharine's basin with restored pub and new developments and the updated yacht haven.
St.Katharine's yacht haven with Dickens pub and the Shard now appearing above Tower Bridge.
After the world war bomb damage the reconstruction has started on this site looking west toward the Tower Hotel and St. Katharine dock warehouses. Some of the original warehouse pillars are visible.
From the blocks of flats erected the current view over St. Katharine dock as renewal continues and the marina expands.
After getting access to the roof of the Tower Hotel I took this image showing the layout of St.Katharine’s docks and in the distance to the East the remains of the old London Dock and Pennington Street.
Unfortunately I couldn't get access to the roof of the Tower hotel on this visit but the new developments are plainly visible to the east where London Dock stood.
From the top of the Tower Hotel the view to the East with Ivory House in the foreground and St.Katharine’s marina. The newest tower blocks are visible in Canary Wharf and the cranes working on the new Wapping village to the left.
The view downriver from the Tower Hotel in 1971 with work about to start on the new housing and offices by the dockside.
The view down river from the the Tower Hotel in St.Katharine’s Dock in 2018 with still more towers appearing in West India Dock, Canary Wharf.