When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The City of London – the area mainly inside the Roman walls – was the economic engine of the ...

Great explosions rang out in London’s Lower Thames Street: the sound of houses, shops, warehouses and taverns being blown up, a method intended to halt the spread of the seemingly unstoppable flames.

Metropolis isn’t sure that Le Pain Quotidien can quite claim to be a phoenix rising from the ashes of London’s most famous fire, but just three-and-a-half centuries after its original bakery flamed ...

Explore The Great Fire of 1666 with these songs for 5 - 7 year olds and other video content which examine the causes of The Fire, what happened during The Fire and how the city was rebuilt afterwards.

The first person to raise the alarm about a blaze that became the Great Fire of London has been revealed 357 years after the inferno. It is widely known the fire began at Thomas Farriner's bakery in ...

For more of all things London history, sign up for our new newsletter and community: Londonist: Time Machine. Track down the key sites, commemorations and even surviving fragments from the Great Fire ...

The first witness of the Great Fire of London has been revealed for the first time as Thomas Dagger, a journeyman baker on Pudding Lane. Museum of London research has conclusively identified Dagger ...

Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens were invented all ...

Six students from De Montfort University won first prize in the Off The Map challenge when they turned maps of seventeenth century London into a detailed 3D world. The challenge was sponsored by ...

You are in: London > In Pictures > Views of London > Views from the Monument > 360 View: Monument Square 2 View of Pudding Lane and the new Monument Square in the City of London. To move around in the ...