Staple shot..

Lunch time wander and a shot of the gates to Staple Inn..
Staple Inn dating from at least 1415,was originally an inn where wool merchants stayed and haggled. In reference to this, the Inn coat of arms contained a bale of wool.

During the reign of Elizabeth I it was the largest of the Inns of Chancery, with 145 students and 69 as permanent residents. The buildings survived the great fire of London and were rebuilt in the seventeenth century and in the nineteenth.

The Inn was shut down and the building sold to the Prudential Assurance Company in 1884, and part of it is now used as the headquarters of the Institute of Actuaries.

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