3038359 Staples Inn Hall Holborn, 1830 (engraving) by Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (1792-1864) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Originally a staple where wool was traded, Staple Inn became an Inn of Chancery in 1378. The banqueting hall with a hammer beam roof dating from 1580 was destroyed in 1944. Engraved by W.H.Bond, published in \'London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century\'); English, out of copyright.