Cottages in Albert Road
Cottages in Albert Road
Record No
167926
Title
Cottages in Albert Road
Description
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 is believed to show two of a terrace of cottages on the north side of Albert Road between Fernhill Street and Mary Rose Street, since redeveloped. They would have faced across the North Woolwich railway line toward the Henley Electrical Cable works. They were numbered 46 and 47 at the time of the photograph, but renumbered as 246 and 248 before the 1901 census, and would have backed on to Davey Square. There is a boot scraper recessed into the pillar dividing the entrance to the cottages. Both cottages have floral pattern lace and fabric curtains and number 47 has in its ground-floor window a display of pots containing pelargoniums, some trained on a frame. The trapezoid lintels above the pair of front doors and windows on both floors is thought to be of similar style to other terraced cottages in the St John's Parish. Although damaged by bombing during World War II, the terrace appears to have survived in post-war OS maps, but was lost to late twentieth century housing development and the site now forms a green space separating Dunedin House's garage block from Albert Road.
Date of execution
1899
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
Although north of the River Thames part of Albert Road (even numbers from 112 to 360 and odd numbers from 137 to 205) was within the Municipal Borough of Woolwich between 1889 and 1965. The rest of the road including these buildings was outside of the County of London local government area.
Medium
photograph
Support
paper
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_554_74_11712
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