The Great Fire of London in 1666
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The Great Fire of London in 1666
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The Waiting Disaster
• September 2nd 1666
• Four days and nights of constant fire
• Hundred acres of densely packed housing, stores and workplaces burnt down
• People became homeless and destitute
• Medieval streets – narrow, buildings close, constructed with flammable materials
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The Fire starts
• In the early hours of September 2nd 1666
• Bakehouse in Pudding Lane
• Thomas Farriner, a baker to the king
• Failed to douse the oven properly
• Ember ignited straw
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The Fire Spreads
• Farriner and his family were awoken by the smell of smoke around 1am
• First casualty – maid of Farriner
• The sparks showered surrounding buildings
• The fire gained strenght in the riverside warehouses, in Thames street
• The Mayor of London was a sissy
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• Strong winds fed the fire
• By 7:00 300 buildings were ablaze
• The South of London survived thanks to a fire 33 years previously – gap between buildings
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September 3rd
• By midnight the conflagration had spread along half a mile of riverfront
• Citizens abandoned homes and hills surrounding London were filled with refuees watching their city in flames
• Fire spread throughout the 3rd
• 2pm 400m north of Pudding Lane
• 9pm over 1km west of Pudding Lane
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September 4th
• By sunrise the fire was at it’s peak• The gunpowder was used to clear great gaps
in the west• Fire was stopped before reaching The Tower
of London, home to a gunpowder• In the north flames remaned unchecked• Some flames reached over a mile from
Pudding Line• In the midnight St. Pauls Cathredal went to
rack and ruin
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September 5th: The Fire Is Contained
• Firefighters started using gunpowder activly
• Powerful east wind dropped
• Conflagration was broken into isolated fires
• Small fires still burnt by midday of 6th Sept.
• The Great Fire of London was officially considered to have been extinguished after four and a half days.
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Why the Fire Spread So Quickly
• Houses were next to each other
• Houses were constructed with flammable materials
• Strong wind carried embers across gaps
• The technology was too basic to move the quantity of water needed
• Firebreaks were inadequate
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The Damage
• Up to 430 acres were affected by the fire• Over 13,000 houses, 87 parish churches, 6
chapels, 3 city gates, 4 bridges, 52 guild halls, a prison and many famous and important buildings had been destroyed
• Contemporary estimates claim the damage to buildings nearly 8 million pounds, along with over £2 million worth of goods
• Official records cite only five deaths, but figures eight and seventeen are often given.
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People Seek a Scapegoat
• The fire was the work of Catholic spies or French agents
• it was God's punishment for killing the king• it was God's punishment for turning from
the Pope • it was the embodiment of every anger and
hatred people had • Many Londoners suspected foreigners and
Catholics
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Monument to the Great Fire of London
• The monument consists of a fluted Doric column built of Portland stone topped with a glided urn of fire
• Height – 61,57m – marks the monument's distance to the site of Thomas Farriner
• The top of the monument is reached by climbing up the narrow winding staircase of 311 steps
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