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 a pair of three-storey town houses which, having Georgian styling and rusticated stucco ground floor exterior, appear to predate much of the surrounding residential and commercial buildings, and are set back from the neighbouring buildings behind iron railings. Believed to be on the north side of the East Ham end of Albert Road between Storey Street and Glenister Street, both of which joined Albert Road before more recent redevelopment, they appear to have been let as apartments to labourers, tradesmen, and their families. The corresponding site appears to be empty in post-war OS maps, indicating these and neighbouring buildings may have been destroyed during World War II, although not marked as such in the 1945 bomb damage map.
