Albert Road is a spinal route running parallel to this stretch of the Thames, which served the substantial commercial and residential development built around the Royal Docks during the late nineteenth century. Parts of the road were either in North Woolwich, Kent, or East Ham, Essex, originally having sequences of street numbering in two directions, but all is now within the London Borough of Newham. This view shows two cottages believed to be numbers 82 and 83 at the time from a terrace that was on the north side of the road between Dock Street, approximately where Antwerp Way is today, and the High Street, which is now called Pier Road. The properties in this terrace have distinctive trapezoid lintels and both cottages shown have floral nets and blinds in the windows. A small child can be seen leaning over number 83's low gate. This part of the road was renumbered before the 1901 census, and the house at number 83 became number 170, occupied in 1891 and 1901 by dairyman William Francis, his wife Pheobe, and by 1901 seven children, so the child in the photograph may have been their three year old Stanley. Sadly, the entire terrace of cottages, those opposite, school houses, and St John's Church, all in the immediate area were destroyed by bombing during the World War II and the site appears as occupied by prefabs in post-war OS maps. It has since been redeveloped as low-rise modern housing.