Fire of London
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One of Sir Christopher Wren's unexecuted designs for St Paul's Cathedral, London. The cathedral was to have been the centrepiece of a new urban plan, designed by Wren, for the City of London following the Great Fire. The scheme was rejected as it was felt it would interfere with the city's commercial life. In 1669, a different design of Wren's for the cathedral was accepted.
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A leather bucket used during the great Fire of London. Without hoses, the people fighting the fire would have had to rely on a multitude of such buckets. Leather buckets might be supplied by a number of craftsmen – shoemakers, saddlers, and others – whereas metal buckets would have to be specially made by blacksmiths.
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The Monument, in the City of London, England. The Monument's height of 67 m/220 ft supposedly commemorates the distance from its base to the bakery in Pudding Lane where the fire started.
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The Fire of London of 1666, illustrated here in a contemporary painting of the ‘Dutch School’, swept away much of the medieval city. Thousands of houses, nearly a hundred churches (including the cathedral church of St Paul's), the Guildhall, hospitals, libraries, prisons, company halls, gates, and bridges were destroyed.
Fire 2–5 September 1666 that destroyed four-fifths of the City of London. It broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane and spread as far west as the Temple. It destroyed 87 churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, and 13,200 houses, although fewer than 20 people lost their lives.
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