Pudding Lane
Books
- Pudding Lane The Great Fire of London, Hour by Hour · Liszt Think
In the early hours of September 2, 1666, a spark in Thomas Farriner’s Pudding Lane bakehouse ignited a catastrophe that consumed medieval London.
- The City of Wood and PitchThe warehouse timbers groaned. Late August 1666, and the building on the riverfront near Pudding Lane had reached its limit. Inside, barrels of train oil stood stacked against walls lined with bales of hemp and sacks of sea-coal. The cargo h…
- The King’s Peace and the Mayor’s Watch…selves forced the decision and removed the burden of choice. Bloodworth would be condemned for this rationality. When first informed of the Pudding Lane fire, he was reported to have dismissed it as something a woman might extinguish with her own water. The words read as incompetence or indi…
- A Baker on Pudding Lane…er raked them level across the oven floor. The final act of his Saturday, and the habit of twenty-seven years in the baking trade. Outside, Pudding Lane ran dark between Eastcheap and the Thames. The tide was low. The night smelled of river mud and the faint sweetness of burned flour that ne…