View of the backs of derelict terraced houses, possibly from Randall's Market in the area of Alton Street, Poplar. A low-rise housing block, with a taller industrial building behind, is visible in the background at the right-hand end of the terrace. The two-storey brick buildings have tiled pitched roof with an ornate stone gable on top of a parapet wall. The houses have single-storey buildings to the rear, seen partially demolished, with the site strewn with builders rubble, corrugated asbestos cement sheeting, and a discarded galvanized steel water tank. The house at the near end appears to have rebuilt, with the upper part of the wall visibly misaligned with its neighbour. The area was extensively damaged by bombing during World War II. The Victorian-period housing in the area was demolished for the Alton Street housing scheme which, along with Barchester Street, Cordelia Street, Lansbury Market Extension, Gough Grove, Brabazon Street, Grundy Street, Bartlett Park, Landfield Estate and Arcadian Self-Build Housing schemes, was built as part of the Lansbury Estate post-Festival of Britain development between 1958 and 1961. The low-rise elements of these schemes are systematically being replaced by higher-density housing blocks.