Great Fire Of London
Blog
2nd September 1666
The Great Fire Of London started in a bakery owned by
Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane. His maid forgot to put out the
fire and she was the first victim of the fire.
It was the second tragic thing that happened
in The Stuart Times. The first thing was
The Plague.
The maid tried to climb out the bakery
but sadly failed, once the fire started,
the fire spreaded quickly into other houses since the houses
were made of wood. By 7am shockingly 300 houses were burning
then by 10 am pepys travelled to Whitehall to tell King Charles II about
the situation he recommended to pull down the houses to make fire breaks.
When it was 3pm the fire burnt in the waterside and even warehouses
fed by all the flammable goods such as wine,oil,hemp,tar,coal and timber.
people tried to escape by going to rivers and going into boats and sail away.
Samuel pepys, the great English diarist, was forced to flee his home
during the fire, but not before he buried some wine and his parmesan
cheese and other prized possesions.
The Monument to the Great Fire Of London still remains here so we wont
forget about what had happened in Pudding Lane. The London is said to be
so precisely that if should ever be tipped over it will point to the exact spot
where this great blaze began.