A view looking east along Commercial Road, Stepney, with pedestrians, a horse-drawn wagon, and a horse-drawn tram. Commercial Road has tram lines and can be seen to be cobbled. The two shops in the foreground, A. Green newsagents with newspaper boards and a grocer's shop with awning, along with the Friends Meeting Institute with black railings on the corner of Dorset Street (latterly Pitsea Street) have been demolished. The Friends Meeting Institute was previously the Bloomsbury Chapel, built in 1826 by Samuel Avila. It opened in January 1827 having cost £2000. When he died in 1836 he requested to be buried under the pulpit. In 1899 during sewer work at the Friends Institute 150-200 coffins were discovered in a vault, half of these were infants. Chalkwell House, part of the Pitsea Street Housing Estate, now occupies the site of the newagents and the Friends Meeting Institute. Beyond this is the Commercial Brewery Co Ltd, now the site of the Grade II listed Troxy; listing number 1065742. Built in 1933, the Art Deco Troxy opened as a cinema, closed in 1960 and became a training school for the London Opera Centre. It was used as a bingo hall in the 1980s and converted to a live events space in 2006. The terrace of three-storey buildings on the left no longer exists; a green space now occupies their site. Beyond this is the Stepney Temple, Wesleyan East End Mission, with its fluted columns and heavy porticoed frontage. The columns and portico were later removed to enable the construction of a new Wesleyan Central Hall, with a four storey, domed facade. This still exists. The main hall has been demolished and replaced by apartments.