once posted on Funky, a blog about the latest news, "Fire from the heart of London spreads through the blood of it's veins, making history from ashes" (“Metaphor…” quote #6). In 1666, the Great Fire of London destroyed and turned everything in its path to ashes and is remembered as one of the most historical devastations of Great Britain. The September fire lasted approximately four days. There are a number of different reasons why this fire was so destructive including a lack of response, building
recorded history, fires have been known to cause great loss of life, property, and knowledge. The Great Fire of London was easily one of the worst fires mankind has ever seen causing large scale destruction and terror. Samuel Pepys described the fire as “A most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made.” (Britain Express 1). Although it started as a small fire in a baker’s shop
Though they were not wanted, “Fires were not uncommon in seventeenth-century London” (Cowie, 59). Fires weren’t the only things that London residents worried about though. In 1665 a tragedy known as the Black Plague had occurred and killed many people in the city and though the plague was gone “People continued to fear another outbreak of plague for the rest of the seventeenth century” (Cowie, 56-57). The Great Fire of London was a tragedy that destroyed a whole city and scared all the people who
The great fire of London arguably left a far greater mark on the city of London when compared to the plage. Just hit by the plague of sixteen sixty-six London was in a time of recovery, unfortunately a year later they were hit again by another natural disaster. A fire that left four hundred and thirty-six acres of land destroyed, over eighty churches burned to the ground, thirteen thousand houses demolished, sixty-five people displaced and six deaths, not including other related deaths. The fire required
The Great Fire of London On the evening of September 2, 1666, a vast conflagration began in the great city of London, causing an amount of destruction that was neither predictable nor irreversible. As this dreadful disaster unfolded, hundreds of buildings, residences, and shelters were demolished. As London recovered, a wide variety of changes that were made affected the long term layout of the streets, homes, and businesses. An extensive analysis of London before the Great Fire, while the city
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON OF 1666 The Great Fire of London of 1666 that was started by Thomas Farrinor’s bakery caused the destruction of 80 percent of London and led to the creation of insurance and firefighting companies. The fire marked a time of rebirth for the British capital since the city had to rebuild entirely. The fire was quite an interesting event owing the fact that it caused such an extreme amount of destruction and took the lives of only six people. Londoners remember the seventeenth
On the early morning of Sunday September 2, 1666 a fire broke out that swept through the central parts of the English city of London and ended on Wednesday September 5, 1666. About 13,200 houses and 87 parish churches, which were built during the Middle Ages were totally destroyed. London was the city of medieval houses mostly made of oak timber. The Great London fire was a tragedy that affected London in numerous ways, such as how it started, how it affected London’s community terribly and destroyed
The Great Fire of London was an appalling but historic event that took place on September 2-5, 1666. In the span of twelve months from the plague, the tragic fire was the second event to happen and have an effect on the town (Trueman). The fire started due to a bakery shop catching an oven fire that was not properly put out. Due to that, the fire surfaced rapidly throughout the town. Many of the towns historic buildings and monuments were destroyed because of the fire. All through history, fires
Plague and the Great Fire of London Two disasters struck London during the 1660s with the first being an outbreak of bubonic plague, the last and worst of a series that had started in the 1300s. The latter disaster was the great fire of London in which a Bakery broke out in flames near to the London Bridge when many of London's houses became sources of combustion as the fire took hold of
as culture, demand, and the vision of the city from the designer, but none are more instant and long lasting then disasters. London is one city that in this it is apparent and thus it is the topic for this essay. In order to demonstrate that the impact that disasters have on a city are the greatest shaping tools, I will focus of the Great London fire of 1666 and the Great Stink of 1858 and compare them to the Industrial revolution of 1760. I will give a short background history of the disasters combined
The Great Fire of London In the year 1666, one of the most horrific, destructive fires started in London. A bakery on Pudding Lane destroyed just about all of London, the fire left nothing for the people living there and burnt down everything. The Great Fire of London left the city in ruins, followed by fear and sorrow, and yet it provided the city with an opportunity to build an entirely new London. On the night of September 1, 1666 “a little bakery on Pudding Lane had entered
London Falls to Ashes: The Great Fire of London A little before midnight of September 2, 1666, there was a devastating fire that broke out in one of London’s houses. On Thursday, September 2, 1666 an accidental fire broke out in Thomas Fraynor’s bakery. He claimed to extinguish the fire, but three hours later at 1:00am his house was on fire. The fire spread when a strong dry wind blew past. The fire killed six people. The fire had spread all throughout London. The fire lasted and spread for three
chose the topic about the Great Fire of London because this event gripped my attention at once. The reason why I became interested in this topic is because I was surprised about the remarkable transformation of London compared to before the fire and after the fire. There was a video clip I watched, produced by a group of De Montfort University students. It showed the filthy, messy, and out of order environment of London during the 17th century. Then, I saw London after the fire. Especially, I saw the
London in the seventeenth century was a city filled with people, homes and buildings constructed of wood, and narrow roads. However, on the evening of September 2 this played a large part in a disastrous occurrence that would change London forever. In 1666 Thomas Farrinor, a baker, unsuccessfully extinguished his oven causing the Great fire of London to burn from September 2 to September 6, leaving thousands of London’s citizens homeless and churchless. On the dry summer night of September 2, 1666
will describe the view of London from Dyden's Annus Mirabilis and Pepys' Diary, I will discuss what each excerpt have in common and what differs with regards to the representation of the Great Fire of 1666, I will display each author's attitude toward the city, the nation and its people and finally showcase which writer is more optimistic of the city's future. By the very first line in Annus Mirabilis you can see that the author viewed the city before the fire as a great city that has made a turn
In 1666, a great fire that lasted for three days desolated an enormous amount of London. More than 300 houses were destroyed; left under about a mile of ash. The people of the city could have lessened the amount of destruction that the fire brought on the city. However, according the Samuel Pepys’s diary the Mayor complained that they could not pull down houses fast enough in order to keep the fire from spreading so far. Three hundred and fifty years later— with the start of a man with thoughts
1. INTRODUCTION 'My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can affect the quality of life of the people.' – Richard Rogers Since the beginning of mankind, architecture was present in human’s life. Building first evolved out of the dynamics between needs (shelter, security, and worship) and means (available building materials and attendant skills). As the cultures developed, human’s knowledge developed
There has been perhaps no more widespread illness in recorded history than the last wave of bubonic plague to sweep London. This most recent occurance of bubonic plague, often referred to due to its magntitude and devestation as “The Great Plague,” occurred in London from 1665 to 1666. The plague truly was “great” in the impact it had on London, considering it killed off approximately a quarter of London’s population. The thing that strikes as perplexing is the fact that the plague was handled with
The Great Fire of 1666 devastated London’s religious infrastructure, reducing 87 parochial churches, six chapels, and St Paul’s Cathedral to rubble and ashes, an estimated £1,800,000 worth of damage. The parish churches provided a great opportunity to architect Christopher Wren, who was appointed head of the commission in charge of rebuilding 51 parish churches. In his rebuilding, Wren needed to balance limitations from existing church foundations and complicated finances. He had to consider the
reign of three rulers, two dynasties and a revolution. The social life of this period was influenced much by the French manners. The life of the people of England was greatly affected by the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. The city ravaged by the violent outbreak was later devastated by fire. The entire city was re-built. There was also a change in literary tastes during this time owing to the French influence. Literature appealed more to the head than to the heart and reason and