Typical "two-up, two-down" housing dating from 1899. These houses were often built very quickly and cheaply to house the expanding population that was coming in to work in the fast-growing industrial belt along the Thames.  Unlike better quality houses,there is almost no ornamentation except for the brick string course and saw-tooth  frieze at eves level. Some houses like this existed until the post-war slum-clearance programmes of the 1960s and 70s.

(photo: Newham Heritage & Archives - Godfrey collection)