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How it started
Thomas Farynor forgot to put out in one of his ovens -
Little spark(1:00 am)
A spark set fire to the straw on the bakery floor -
Order of the Lord Mayor of London (4:00 am)
At 4:00 am London's mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth, was woken up. He was advised to have all the neighbouring houses demolished, as this would stop the fire spreading, but the Mayor refused to give the order. He paid dearly for this decision. By early morning, three hundred houses were on fire and winds from the east were causing the fire to spread with frightening speed. -
Fire-fighting
When the strong winds finally died down, to bring the fire under control.Samuel Pepys( Member of Parliament) walked all over the smouldering city, getting his feet hot, and climbed the steeple of Barking Church, from which he viewed the destroyed City, "the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw." -
End of the fire
When the fire was totally extinguished on Thursday, 6th September, five-sixths of the heart of the city had been destroyed. Over 13,000 houses, 87 churches and 4 bridges, along with many important buildings, such as St Paul's
Cathedral, were gone. Astonishingly, however, it is thought that fewer than ten people died in the blaze!
