Henry Cole, the first director of the South Kensington Museum (later known as the Victoria and Albert Museum), had drawn a rough sketch of proposed buildings while the Science Schools were still in course of erection [see E.2033-1921]. The Museum was to be extended in a similar style, so he scribbled his ideas down on a piece of writing paper, knowing that his draughtsmen in the Museum Design Office would turn its content into this attractive presentation drawing. Their drawing contains and expands all the information in Cole's sketch, and shows how the proposed chimney tower for the boiler house, with its spiral exterior staircase, would have formed a distinctive and imaginative landmark. Unfortunately, the Treasury did not approve of more expenditure. The tower, the ground-floor arcade and the duplication of the Science Schools block to the right of the tower therefore remained unexecuted. This area of the Museum site was eventually built upon much later, to designs by Sir Aston Webb, and not completed until 1909.