| |
| |
The Great Fire of London. 1666. |
 | | The Great Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane, in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II. |
 | | At one o'clock in the morning, a servant woke to find the house aflame, and the baker and his family escaped, but a fear-struck maid perished in the blaze. |
 | | The King also had Wren design a monument to the Great Fire, which stands still today at the site of the bakery which started it all, on a street now named Monument Street. |
| www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/greatfire.htm (743 words) |
|