View of three- and two-storey with attic clapboard houses at 26 and 27 Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. Looking west along the side accessway to Stable Yard, where three women can be seen posing, holding three young children with another looking out from a downstairs window. The house at number 26 has a side light sash window downstairs, six-over-six sash windows upstairs, seen with planters on the cills and, possibly, birdcages mounted on the front either side, together with an estate agents board of H. M. and W. Grellier advertising 'a four-floor warehouse with basement to let' (probably, at number 28 on the far side of the accessway), and dormer windows in the tiled mansard roof. The house at number 27, in Stable Yard behind, are seen as the premises of Everett and Company, bonded carmen, contractors and shipping agents. Timber construction was illegal, but London’s building acts were not well enforced, and this development was evidently commercially led. The brick building of the former sugar house of Ellerman on Well Street, latterly Ensign Street, is visible surrounding the house. Number 27 was damaged beyond repair by bombing during World War II, with the remainder of the buildings demolished c1954 and, later, redeveloped as the Shapla Primary School.