View of buildings at the south-east corner of Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, looking south down Ship Alley. The timber and glazed shopfront of G. E. Weston and Sons, builders, can be seen on the left in the three-storey building at number 42 on the east side of the square, with an adjacent terrace of three- and four-storey buildings with shops at the ground floor, and gas street lamps. Two-storey houses with garrets in steeply pitched roofs can be seen at number 38 and 39, to the right of the alley on the south side. With single-storey timber-framed extensions for shop premises, in front, seen along with the railings of St Paul’s Whitechapel Church of England Primary School, in the foreground. A market barrow loaded with fruit and vegetables in wooden boxes is visible in front of the alley on the leaf-strewn cobbled street where shoppers are inspecting the goods. The buildings have since been demolished, and redeveloped c1968 with Swedenborg Gardens to the east, and, later, Ensign Youth Club, on the south side of the square.