Photo: granite benches, Monument Street – © David Charnick 2020

On Sunday 2 September 1666 fire broke out on Pudding Lane in the City of London.

Diarist Samuel Pepys recorded that the Great Fire of London appeared ‘in a most horrid, malicious, bloody flame’. So quickly and fiercely did it spread that it felt to the citizens as if the fire had a mind of its own.

This tour follows the Great Fire as it spread from Pudding Lane and made its destructive progress westwards. As we go we consider the reasons why the fire defeated attempts to extinguish it. Also we consider aspects of the aftermath of the Great Fire of London.

Please meet me in the porch of the Church of St Magnus Martyr on Lower Thames Street. We finish at St Paul’s Cathedral.

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