View of Victoria Embankment, Westminster, taken from the shot tower, which was on the south bank. The view is across Waterloo Bridge (Grade II* listed, listing number 1275000) towards Somerset House (Grade I listed, listing number 1237041). The bridge, looking pristine in this image with only a few pedestrians on it, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and completed in 1945, the only Thames bridge not to have been damaged by bombing. It replaced an earlier structure, designed by John Rennie and dating from 1817. Somerset House, to the immediate right of the bridge was built as The New Public Offices between 1776-96 by Sir William Chambers, is in neo-classical style and in Portland stone. To its right the SS Discovery, Scott's vessel for his Antarctic expedition in 1901 is moored. She was moved to Dundee in 1986. The Lambeth shot tower from where this was taken, was a cylindrical tower used in the production of lead shot. It was built in 1826 and demolished in 1962 to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall.