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 pairs of two storey maisonettes at numbers 21, 21a, 22, 22a, believed to have been on the north side of the road in a terrace between Winifred Street and Auberon Street, the latter named street now lost to post-war redevelopment. By the time of the 1901 Census this part of Albert Road was renumbered and sequenced in the opposite direction, so numbers 22/22a became 284 and 286 and numbers 21/21a 288 and 290. They would have looked across the Woolwich branch line railway towards the large factories that occupied the riverside. These maisonettes appear to have more ornate features than some of the surrounding area, with floral motifs in the masonry and decorative iron railings above the brick boundary wall setting the terrace back from the pavement. The windows have slatted blinds, presumably owing to their south facing aspect, and patterned net curtains. A plaque to the side of 22/22as entrance shows PRUDENTIAL and the 1901 Census shows that number 286 was occupied by a Life insurance Agent called Charles Brook. Writing to the foot of the image states 'Albert Road nos 21 + 22' then disappears out of frame. Although some damage from wartime bombing was recorded, post-war maps show these maisonettes still standing, but the site has since been redeveloped as the low rise housing cul de sac at Winifred Street.