Image description: Balconies, windows and crane ofluxury flats converted (1981-83) from Victorian warehouses, New Concordia Wharf, Bermondsey, London.

This dockland area - Jacob's Island, just southeast of Tower Bridge and opposite St Saviour's Dock on the River Thames - was a notorious slum in the 19th century. It was here that Bill Sykes meets his end in Dicken's Oliver Twist.