View of two-storey houses with garrets in steeply pitched roofs at 33 to 37 on the south side of Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, looking south. The houses were built c1683 by economist, physician, speculator, developer, and pioneer of fire insurance and mortgages, Nicholas Barbon (c1640 – c1698, purported baptismal name, 'If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone'), eldest son of Fifth Monarchist, Praise-God Barebone. It is believed that the buildings on the south side were lower than other buildings on the square to reduce shadows. Numbers 38 and 39 have been demolished revealing outbuildings at the rear of 37, and a former wool warehouse on Pennington Street to the north of London Docks in the background, now converted into flats named 'Telfords Yard'. A man can be seen leaning on the door of The Old Court House lodgings. Ongoing roadworks are visible on the right, seen with barricades around two sides of an excavation in the cobbled street, with equipment on the third side. Vehicles parked in the street include a Ford Prefect E493A, a Ford Consul Mark II, an early Commer FC van of F M Langford Limited 'chemists, perfumers, distributers and packers to the trade'. The houses were demolished as part of the London County Council's slum clearance campaign, and redeveloped c1968 with Swedenborg Gardens to the east, and, later, the Ensign Youth Club, on the south side of the square.