The Great Fire of London broke out on September 2, 1666, in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane. At the time, much of ...

The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to fix the old city's problems. None of these plans were ever adopted. Why?

If I’m walking along a street and I spot an unexplored alleyway, then I explore it. The older parts of London are a ...

One of his quatrains appeared to eerily predict the Great ... London, Burnt up in the fire of ‘66: The ancient Lady will topple from her high place, Many of the same sect will be killed.” The famous ...

One of his quatrains appeared to eerily predict the Great Fire of London ... The famous fire ripped through London for three days in 1666. As well as accurately foretelling the time of the ...

The famous fire ripped through London for three days in 1666. As well as accurately foretelling ... Swimming in praise, the great man hurries to the confluence. He will refuse entry to the magpies ...

London's Burning! Disaster strikes in 1666 as the dense, mostly wooden, city of London begins to burn. Who started the fire? Why did it spread like none before or since? Maddy Pelling tells ...

Two elements of this network can still be seen: a sealed conduit building at the base of One Tree Hill and the Conduit House in the park's northwest, near St. Mary's Gate. The Conduit House still has ...

After St Bride’s and countless other City churches were razed to the ground by the Great Fire of London in 1666, 51 of them ... Across the UK, church attendance remains lower than pre-pandemic ...

left another 1.5 million Londoners homeless and changed the London landscape more than at any time since the Great Fire of 1666.

January 4 marks the 125th anniversary of the fire considered as devastating as the Great Fire of London. The British ... 4th January 1889.’ It remains the only tangible memory of the fire.