View of four-storey buildings on the east side of Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. At numbers 40 to 47, looking south along the pavement towards Ship Alley at the south-east corner. The ruins of numbers 38 and 39, and the two-storey with attic houses, can be seen to the right on the south side of the square, with a small boy visible at the entrance to the alley. The pale brick facade of Clifford House, a block of 24 flats at 44 and 45 (rebuilt c1899 to a design by architect John Robert Smith) originally with a purpose-built synagogue at the rear, can be seen on the left. Also the ruins of a house at number 46, seen with boarded-up ground-floor windows and planks covering the basement light wells. The former premises of Nunn, Ridsdale and Company, sheet metal brass workers, is visible further along at 42, listed as 'manufacturers of every description of ship's lamps, lanterns, fog horns, ship fittings, Holmes' rescue and distress signals, Colo'moll flashing signals, and Robertson's patent rowlocks etc.', who also made railway lamps, and converted oil lamps for electricity. The former wool warehouse on Pennington Street behind London Docks, is visible in the background, now converted into flats named 'Telfords Yard'. Vehicles parked in the street include a Ford Popular 103E, and, possibly an Austin Somerset, and a Ford Consul Mark II saloon. The buildings were among the last to be demolished as part of the London County Council's slum clearance campaign, and redeveloped c1968 with housing blocks of the Greater London Council's, St George's Estate, and Swedenborg Gardens, also later, Ensign Youth Club, on the south side of the square.