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 part of a terrace of cottages believed to have been on the north side of Albert Road at that timed numbered 42 and 43, next door to a pub called the Mariner's Arms and in between Fernhill Street and Mary Rose Street. They would have looked across the North Woolwich railway line towards the electrical and telegraph cable works and, although damaged during wartime bombing, they appear to have survived in post-war OS maps. However, the terrace, the pub, and Mary Rose Street were redeveloped and a grassed space now separates the road from a garage block and the high rise flats of Dunedin House. A number of cottages to the west of the High Street, later renamed Pier Road, feature the trapezoid lintels shown in this photograph and floral curtains and wooden slatted blinds also appear to have been popular.
