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 13,13a,14, and 14a, believed to have been on the north side of the road in a terrace between Rhea Street and Winifred Street. By the time of the 1901 Census this part of Albert Road was renumbered and sequenced in the opposite direction, so the maisonettes became 314-20. They would have looked across the Woolwich branch line railway towards the large factories that once occupied the riverside. These maisonettes appear to have more ornate features than some of the houses in 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 small child can be seen looking out of the upstairs window of number 13/13a. Writing to the foot of the image states 'Albert Road nos 13 + 14, photographed by S B Boland & Co'. 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 Sheldrake Close.