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 the post office and chemist shop at 106 Albion Road on the corner of Claremont Street run by Henry Hughes, originally from Anglesey. The Albion pub was on the opposite corner and Park Terrace was across the road, now gone although Royal Victoria Gardens remain today. The shop's hoarding states 'Pharmacy & Surgery - Post & Telegraph Office' and the window display has a large range of small containers crowned by three eye-catching carboys. Signs in the window advertise products such as Vinolia Soap. A sign below the window shows a range of post office services and there is some form of hatch below the window sill. An impressive lantern is suspended on an ornate cast iron bracket over the shop door, above which panels display the street number 106 and 'North Woolwich Albert Road. E. Post Office'. To the left of view is the coffee shop at 108 Albert Road of Alfred Crowe, which by the time of the 1901 Census was run by his window Elizabeth Crowe. A young woman or child is shown standing in Albert Road and to the right of picture the view looks northward up Claremont Street. A number of figures can be seen, mostly blurred by the relatively long photographic exposure time, but there are two standing clearly in adjacent doorways looking towards the photographer. The wheel of a cart can just be seen across the road. The shops were in a terrace that stood between the Royal Standard pub on the corner of the High Street, which still stands today on the since-renamed Pier Road, and Claremont Street, which no longer joins Albert Road. The terrace was destroyed by bombing during World War II and the site is now a strip of green space next to a sheltered bus stop, with a boundary wall serving the rear gardens of the modern houses on Albert Walk.