Gallery - Library History: pre-War to the 1960s

Library exterior pre-World War II © Inner Temple Library

Library interior 1905 © Inner Temple

War Damage to Library Steeple © Inner Temple Library

Library War Damage © Inner Temple Library

Library War Damage © Inner Temple Library

Library War Damage © Inner Temple Library

Library War Damage © Inner Temple Library

Library War Damage © Inner Temple Library

Library War Damage © Inner Temple Library

Library interior, destroyed 1940-41 © Inner Temple Library

The Slow Destruction by Enemy Action (Bottom right – Librarian’s Desk 30 Dec 1940) © Inner Temple Library

Temporary Library at 2 King’s Bench Walk, c1949 © Inner Temple Library

Moving from 2 King’s Bench Walk, 1958 © Inner Temple Library

Moving into the New Library, 1958 © Inner Temple Library

Moving into the New Library, 1958 © Inner Temple Library

Library Staff outside the New Library, 1958 © Inner Temple Library

New Library, Hall & Treasury Building from the Garden, 1958 © Inner Temple Library

The East End of the New Library, 1958 © Inner Temple Library

Opening Ceremony. The Treasurer (Sir Patrick Spens); seated behind is The Librarian, E.A.P. Hart, 21 April 1958 © Inner Temple Library

New Library Room C © Inner Temple Library

Looking to Room D from Room C © Inner Temple Library

New Library Room D © Inner Temple Library

The Sub Librarian’s Room. Top row: Sub Librarian (Wallace Breem). Bottom row right: Sub Librarian and Assistant Librarian (Philip Beddingham) © Inner Temple Library

Top row left to right: Assistant Librarian (Philip Beddingham); Sub Librarian (Wallace Breem); George Reed and Sub Librarian. Bottom row left to right: Sub Librarian and Mrs Burge; Mrs Burge. © Inner Temple Library

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Gallery – Library History: pre-War to the 1960s