Thomas Bloodworth
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 Pitch…obbled alleys. It had experienced several major fires before 1666, the most recent in 1633. Three hundred yards away, in the Guildhall, Sir Thomas Bloodworth surveyed his domain. He had become Lord Mayor that year, appointed to govern a square mile of dense habitation that housed nearly eighty th…
- The King’s Peace and the Mayor’s Watch…ed to be tested was the machinery of response. Who could act, at what cost, with what certainty? On a September morning in 1666, Lord Mayor Thomas Bloodworth sat at his desk in the Guildhall with a leather-bound precedent book open before him. He was fifty-five, a vintner worth perhaps twenty tho…
- A Baker on Pudding Lane…the face of flame. The authority to tear down buildings, to create firebreaks, to command labor and materials, lay with the Lord Mayor. Sir Thomas Bloodworth, awakened at his house in Lombard Street, would ride to the scene, view the fire, pronounce it negligible, and return to bed. This sequence…