View of Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, looking east from Westminster Bridge. On the left is the South Block of County Hall, built by Higgs and Hill between 1936 and 1939, as an addition to the main County Hall which was opened in 1922 as the headquarters of the London County Council, later the Greater London Council. On the corner of the building is a sign for the GREATER LONDON COUNCIL INFORMATION CENTRE and in fronts a road sign for GLC Westminster Bridge Road - York Road CONSTRUCTION OF A ROUNDABOUT. The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 and the building is now used for a hotel, restaurants, exhibitions and tourist attractions. At the roundabout with the contractor’s sign SIR ALFRED McALPINE and SONS, is the construction site of the County Hall Island Block extension. Built in the 1970s and designed by John Bancroft as an annexe to the main County Hall which was opened in 1922 as the headquarters of the London County Council, later the Greater London Council. An early example of open-plan office space, the block was enclosed by a roundabout and could only be accessed from the outside by pedestrian subways. The building was inhabited for twelve years before the Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 and the Island Block was abandoned. It lay empty for twenty years before being demolished in 2006 to make way for the 14-storey Westminster Bridge Park Plaza hotel. Beyond is the railway viaduct that carried trains into Waterloo Station and on the viaduct, the flat roofed building is the Waterloo Signal Box with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Style 'L' Power Lever Frame. Commissioned on the 18th October 1936, it remained in use until 1984 and was demolished for the construction of the Eurostar Terminal. On the right is the high-rise office block York House, built in 1964. Adjacent, the three-storey octagonal building is The Pillbox public house, known later as The Florence Nightgale. These building were demolished in 2013 and the site is now high-rise student accommodation. On the extreme right are the remaining nineteenth-century warehouses and workshops at 26-35 Stangate Street. On this site is now an extension of St Thomas' Hospital. Several vans and cars are parked and travelling on the road, including a Mini.