The King's Guard assaulted strangers for speaking poor English, and everywhere there was 'a great alarm of French and Dutch being risen', as Pepys reported. BBC © 2014 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Win a set of The Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat by Philip Ardagh and Rob Biddulph! 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About 17th Century English Funerals, Field of the Cloth of Gold: Renaissance Monarchy at Work, The Industrial Revolution: Invention and Innovation, Assassination in Sarajevo 1914: The Catalyst For World War One. Plus, they were built close together along narrow streets, so the fire was able to move around easily and quickly. People whose homes had burned down lived in tents in the fields around London while buildings were rebuilt. Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) – Christopher Wren was a famous architect who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Hysteria had raged as fiercely as the flames, as frightened fingers fell on foreigners. At that time, London housed over three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) people. Houses were also built very close together. Officially, only four people died, but John Evelyn referred in his diary to 'the stench that came from some poor creatures' bodies' and the true toll is likely to have been much higher, rising further in the following months. The Parliamentary committee reported in January 1667 that 'nothing hath yet been found to argue it to have been other than the hand of God upon us, a great wind, and the season so very dry'. By the following dawn, the fire was raging north and west, and panic reigned. ...embers were falling on Kensington, and flames surrounded St Paul's Cathedral, covered in scaffolding. Thus by September 1666, all that was required was a spark. The Great Fire of 1666 was not the first time London had witnessed major conflagrations. The fire began in a bakery in Pudding Lane. It is known that a fifth of the city of London survived the inferno. Enter to win the whole series worth £89.94 (rrp)! It has been recounted in dozens of works […] The fire lasted four days, and burned down over 13,000 homes. When the Great Fire happened in 1666, he wrote about it in his diary – he walked around the city on 7 September and wrote about how people who had lost their homes were camping in the fields, and that the ground and charred wood was still so hot that holes burned in his shoes.
The Great Fire was a transformative moment for London – devastatingly destructive but also, in many ways, a catalyst for changes that have come to define the city we know today. Lots of people went to St. Paul’s Cathedral to escape from the fire because it was made from stone – stone does not burn.
At the same time, the wind slackened and changed direction, turning south and blowing the fire onto itself and into the river. During the investigation a French Protestant watchmaker, Robert Hubert, confessed to having deliberately started the fire at the bakery with 23 conspirators.
Enter for a chance to win the first 2 titles worth £6.99 each (rrp). On Sunday, September 2, 1666, the fire began accidentally
Drawing of a house made from combustible materials, built before the Great Fire.
The Duke of York took control of efforts to stop the fire, with militias summoned from neighbouring counties to help the fight, and stop looting.
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