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 shops in Albert Terrace, a three-storey terrace believed to have stood on the north side of Albert Road between the Albion Pub on the corner of Claremont Street, and Storey Street. Opposite the shops would have been Park Terrace and the Royal Victoria Gardens. The ground floor shop fronts appear to extend forward from the upper floors, which are believed to have been occupied by second households in addition to the shop keepers' families. The shop to the left without hoarding is believed to be that of grocer Charles Edwards, originally from Redbourne, Hertfordshire. Signs in and below the shop window offer 'HIGH CLASS PROVISIONS' and advertise 'splendid Tea at 1'4', R White's Ginger Ale, Colman's Mustard, and Nestle's Milk. Some brand labels appear to be stuck on the door frames. Part of a stepladder can be seen to the left of view. Number 96, mostly obscured by its plain awning and a four wheeled cart, appears to be unstocked but by the time of the 1901 census was run by George Lambert, a butcher from Canning Town. The empty cart has a pony, its image blurred by the long photographic exposure time, and some empty baskets are shown stacked in the road. The terrace doesn't appear on the post-war OS map, although it is unmarked in the 1945 bombing survey, but the site is now occupied by the rear gardens of the modern housing terrace in Albert Walk, which now separates Storey Street and Claremont Street from Albert Road.