Commercial Road is a street in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of (London, England). It connects the City of London with the district at Canary Wharf. The road was constructed in 1802-06 to connect the dock traffic at the West India Docks and the East India Docks to the City.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "The places where the street-sellers more especially offer their birds are—Smithfield, Clerkenwell-green, Lisson-grove, the City and New roads, Shepherdess-walk, Old Street-road, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower-hill, Ratcliffe-highway, Commercial-road East, Poplar, Billingsgate, Westminster Broadway, Covent-garden, Blackfriars-road, Bermondsey (mostly about Dock-head), and in the neighbourhood of the Borough Market."

Phase 2

The Ballast-Heavers. (Volume 3)

Of the Number of Street Stalls. (Volume 1) 

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1)

Of the Street-Buyers of Rags, Broken Metal, Bottles, Glass, and Bones. (Volume 2)

The Ballast-Heavers. (Volume 3)