right, so there's that ticky box

[rm]

Despite my jokes about it, I really didn't expect Canary Wharf to be the Whoniverse-related place in the UK to fuck me up the most, but it just won the prize.

It just looks like a place where the end of the world would happen. But then again, maybe that's just because I once worked in (WTC) Tower 2, and these sorts of business plaza things are really all the same.

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[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Actually, I saw Canary Wharf the day after it was blown up in 1996 and I've never been able to go near the place without a shudder ever since.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh jesus, I didn't know it had been. I'm MORE creeped out now.

In addition to the successful 1996 Canary Wharf bomb, the unsuccessful 1994 bomb...

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

It's also built on an area which was bombed flat in WWII: They found an unexploded Doodlebug in 2007

[meirion.livejournal.com]

Man, there is something wrong with my visual processing circuits tonight, as I just misread "Tube travellers to be scanned for bombs" as "Time travellers to be scanned for bombs" in that newspaper headline!

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

I just had a weird visual of Jack being in charge of that, and enjoying his work a little TOO much.

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

I mean the "Time Travellers being scanned for bombs" bit.