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. Alfred Hartshorn, a grocer and china dealer originally from Leicestershire, ran two shops on Albert Road on opposite corners of Winfred Street, this view showing the grocer's shop at number 16. Albert Road was renumbered by the time of the 1901 Census, number 16 becoming 308, and Alfred Hartshorn by then having four children and a servant, presumably living in the residential part of the building behind and above the shop. The well-stocked window display has many jars and tins, with signs advertising GOOD, GRAND, and SPLENDID blends of tea priced respectively at 1/-, 1/4, 1/6 in shillings and pence. In addition to the Winifred Street road sign, boards on the wall and a sign in the ground floor window advertise Zebra Grate Polish (with a picture of Windsor Castle), Nestle's Milk, Reckitt's Blue, Hudson's Soap Extract, and Cadbury's Cocoa. Although Winifred Street remains today, the sites to both sides were redeveloped in the late twentieth century and now comprise a low-rise housing estate and a school building.
