Monument
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 Pivotal Hour…where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It runs between Eastcheap and Thames Street in the historic City of London, and intersects Monument Street, the site of Christopher Wren’s later memorial to the disaster. At this hour, the narrow way was impassable with heat and falling ti…
- The Hunt for a Culprit…late. The watchmaker’s death left its traces in the city’s memory, though they were soon overlaid by other concerns. The inscription on the Monument, when it was completed a decade later, would include the accusation that Popish frenzy had wrought the horrors of the fire. The inscription…
- The King’s Commission and the City’s Survey…that had survived the fire at the foot of London Bridge. His bakehouse site, on the eastern side of Pudding Lane, would become part of the Monument’s foundation, the column that would mark where London burned. While the commissioners gathered testimony, other men measured the ground its…