'The Old Houses, Holborn, London', c1910. Staple Inn is a Tudor building in the City of London, which dates from 1585. The building was once the wool staple, where wool was weighed and taxed. It survived the Great Fire of London, but was extensively damaged by a Nazi German Luftwaffe aerial bomb in 1944, and was subsequently restored. The shop on the left offers 'Roneo' printing on mimeograph duplicating machines. Postcard.