View of four-, and five-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 on the east side of the square, looking east. The buildings include the five-storey grimy pale brick Clifford House, a block of 24 flats at 44 and 45, originally with a purpose-built synagogue at the rear, and, possibly the former premises of Nunn, Ridsdale and Company, ship lamp manufacturers, at the ground floor of number 42, seen boarded up along with many of the upstairs windows. Number 41 features a pedimented canopy above the entrance and a stone tablet below the central first-floor window with the initials 'F P'. A group of children can be seen outside on the pavement next to the entrance to Ship Alley; the boys dressed in shorts or a suit, the girls in swimming costumes or a summer dress. A Ford Popular 103E featuring headlamp deflectors, is seen parked at the roadside. The buildings were among the last to be demolished as part of the London County Council's slum clearance campaign, and redeveloped c1968 with the 28-storey Hatton House of the Greater London Council's, St George's Estate, and Swedenborg Gardens.