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 86 and 87 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 Pier Road. The properties in this terrace have a distintive trapezoid lintels and the doorways have boot scrapers incorporated into the feet of their dividing columns. Both cottages have a mix of floral lace and fabric curtains and blinds in the windows. A bird cage and potted plant are just visible in the upstairs window of number 87. Sadly, the entire terrace of cottages, those opposite, the school houses, and St John's Church, all in the immediate area, were destroyed by bombing during World War II and the site appears to have been occupied by prefabs in postwar OS maps. The site has since been redeveloped as low-rise modern housing.