Thomas Farriner
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…frames touched each other across the lanes. The warehouses touched the tenements. The oil touched the timber. On the last Sunday of August, Thomas Farriner raked his oven in Pudding Lane. He was a baker and churchwarden, a respectable tradesman who supplied ship’s biscuit to the Navy. His house…
- The King’s Peace and the Mayor’s Watch…e existing arrangements would suffice until they demonstrably failed. The demonstration would be brutal and swift. The fire that started in Thomas Farriner’s bakehouse would spread faster than any messenger could ride, faster than any order could be formulated and transmitted through the layers…
- A Baker on Pudding LaneThe coals still held their heat when Thomas Farriner 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, Pu…