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Article: PETER DREW ; Pioneer in the redevelopment of London's docklands
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2007
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Peter Drew's distinguished career in construction, housing and
commercial property development culminated in three years as
chairman of the Taylor Woodrow Group of companies, 1989-93. In 1969
he had helped to conceive and promote the internationally renowned
St Katharine's Dock redevelopment in London's docklands - in the
British context a pioneering commercial, residential and leisure
community - situated on the waterfront just to the east of Tower
Bridge.
The docks had been built in the early 19th century to designs by
Thomas Telford, and their warehouses had quickly filled up with
ivory, spices, wine, carpets, tea, tobacco and other luxury
products. By the 1960s, however, those trades ...