It is believed he initially put out the fire after a spark from his oven hit fuel in his kitchen. Unfortunately, by the early hours of the morning his house was ablaze and the fire began to spread. What remained of the Cathedral was unworkable so it was demolished, and nine years later work started on a replacement building. The scale of damage caused is why the event is so steeped in London history.
The fire ravaged through London for four days, finally ending on Wednesday 5 th September There are many defining factors that led to the extensive spread and duration of the Great Fire. One was the hot, dry but also windy weather, causing fire to blow through the city. Finally, there was no national fire service to be called upon to tackle the blaze, so the general public had to throw buckets of water to try and put it out.
The fire wreaked more havoc on buildings and architecture than it did human life. Farriner died in , aged 54—55, slightly over four years after the fire. The acres of lead on the roof melted and poured down on to the street like a river, and the great cathedral collapsed. Luckily the Tower of London escaped the inferno, and eventually the fire was brought under control, and by the 6th September had been extinguished altogether.
The fire lasted four days, and burned down over 13, homes. There are a lot of reasons why the fire was so large, mostly to do with the way houses were built — a lot of them were made from wood, and were very close together.
In , a devastating fire swept through London, destroying 13, houses , 87 parish churches, The Royal Exchange, Guildhall and St.
The fire started on Pudding Lane. The fire started in London, on Pudding Lane, in a bakers. The baker, Thomas Farriner , believed he put the fire out but in the middle of the night the fire grew and his house was in flames.
Three firefighters who went to rescue a year old girl on the 20th floor were unable to find her. Unknown to them, she had moved up to a flat on the 23rd floor, was on the phone to a control operator who had no means of knowing what the firefighters were doing, and later died in this location. None of the companies involved in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower has accepted responsibility for the deadly fire, an inquiry has heard.
Fifteen of the 37 Disabled residents and 17 of the 67 children living in Grenfell Tower died in the fire that killed 72 people in total, according to evidence shared in the latest phase of the Inquiry. Press ESC to close. How many people died in the Great Fire of London? Related Contents. Another tragedy would strike only a year later.
The Great Fire of London ravaged the city, feeding on vastly wooden constructs which acted as a tinderbox of destruction within a panicking city. A country at war with the Dutch, the French and the Catholics, several theories and conspiracies arose on who was to blame. Safety standards in England at that time were nowhere near as stringent as they are now.
In a society so reliant on fire for industry, lighting and insulation among others, cramped wooden houses were a massive safety issue even though most fires were extinguished quickly before spreading. This was warned by many leading figures alas, there were few alternatives as cheap. These mostly residential buildings were primarily made of oak, separated by straw floors and thatched roofs.
There was not much open space between buildings in most parts of the city; narrow streets meant that some roofs even touched across streets. September was an especially warm, dry month.
In the east of the city, near London Tower was a bakery which supplied the Royal Navy biscuits. It was located in Fish Yard, just off Pudding Lane. Shortly after midnight on the 2nd of September, the blaze started and spread quickly due to the warm weather making the wood and straw extremely dry. Samuel Pepys. National Portrait Gallery. One of the best accounts of the terror came from famous writer Samuel Pepys, a Member of Parliament and British Navy administrator.
His diary is one of the most famous works in English literature, totalling over 1 million words. Pepys climbed to the top of the Tower of London to which he saw his city burning. He spent much of the next week sailing on the River Thames detailing the path of the fire. The Lord Mayor Thomas Bloodworth was called to the district where the fire started.
He would not allow the experience firefighters to destroy buildings in the path of the conflagration because he could not find the owners. He feared reparations from the landlords no doubt. The fire spread with thousands of people trying to escape the vicinity including via the river Thames. Stores of oil and gunpowder on the banks of the river meant this could be perilous also, and when the blaze hit them it turned into chaos. People lost hope of putting out the fire as gale-force winds gave oxygen to the blaze.
Refugees lined the streets making it difficult for fire-fighting carriages to get through. The destruction was so intense that King Charles II sailed into the city and demanded that buildings be torn down to create a fire break. Paranoia and blame set in by this point and with the wind starting setting seemingly random buildings alight, foul-play was suspected. Reports came of foreigners whose nations were at war with England feeding the fire.
Eyewitness accounts of grenades thrown into buildings. Many French and Dutch nationals living in England were lynched or their stores looted by the blood-hungry mob.
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