Albert Road is a spinal route running parallel to this stretch of the Thames, which served the substantial commercial and residential development built around the Royal Docks during the late nineteenth century. Parts of the road were either in North Woolwich, Kent, or East Ham, Essex, originally having sequences of street numbering in two directions, but all is now within the London Borough of Newham. This view shows two pairs of two storey maisonettes at numbers 19, 19a, 20, 20a, believed to have been on the north side of the road in a terrace between Winifred Street and Auberon Street, the latter named street now lost to post-war redevelopment. They would have looked across the Woolwich branch line railway towards the large factories that once occupied the riverside. These maisonettes appear to have more ornate features than some of the houses in the surrounding area, with floral motifs in the masonry and decorative iron railings above the brick boundary wall setting the terrace back from the pavement. The windows have slatted blinds, presumably owing to their south facing aspect, and patterned net curtains. Although some damage from wartime bombing was recorded, post-war maps show these maisonettes as still standing, but the site has since been redeveloped as the low-rise housing cul de sac at Winifred Street.
