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. The Albion pub stood on the corner of Claremont Street at 102-104 Albert Road, the end of a three-storey terrace of shops with apartments above called Albert Terrace, this view showing the Albion Confectionery Stores at number 102 in the ground floor of the terrace, which extends forward from the upper levels. The pub is believed to have been run at that time by Walter Mann, a beer retailer originally from Norfolk. However, the confectionery store appears to be boarded up, evidently for some time as there are several chalk scribblings visible on the boards. Part-visible hoarding above the parapet of the building shows MANN, CROSSMAN & PAULIN'S Entire, and above the shop front GENUINE PORTER & IMPERIAL STOUT. Part of the adjacent hairdressers is also shown, with a young boy standing in front of the residential door of the address. Cracking and other evidence of subsidence can be seen in the brick work to the upper floors, which seems to have been commonplace in this part of the street, possibly due to the area having been marshland prior to development. Indeed, at least one other photograph of the time shows The Albion's Claremont Road elevation shored up with wooden buttresses. It is remarkable that The Albion survived bombing during the Second World War, which demolished the rest of Albert Terrace and part of Park Terrace across the road, the shadow of one of its cottage's chimneys being visible on the boarded-up shop in this photograph. However, it was apparently demolished in the late 1950s and the site is now occupied by houses in Albert Walk, which now separates Claremont Street from Albert Road.