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 72 and 73 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, since renamed Pier Road. The properties in this terrace have distinctive trapezoid lintels and the doorways have boot scrapers incorporated into the feet of their dividing columns. However, number 72's boot scraper having no dividing column is set in the wall, indicating this may have been the end cottage of the terrace. Both cottages have a mix of floral lace and fabric curtains and blinds in the windows. A painted square on the brickwork next to number 72's windows states 'F P 12FT S', possibly marking the location of underground utilities. 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 post-war OS maps. The site has since been redeveloped as low-rise modern housing.