Historical London blip

I was looking for a good blip today while at in London. Walking along High Holborn in morning rush hour I spotted this across the road. A bit of history amongst modern buildings and new developments.

Staple Inn a Tudor building dated 1585 and the last surviving Inn of Chancery. The building was once the wool staple, where wool was weighed and taxed. It survived the Great Fire of London, was extensively damaged by a Nazi German Luftwaffe aerial bomb in 1944 but was subsequently restored. It has a distinctive timber-framed façade, cruck roof and an internal courtyard

It is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.