London's Burning
London, in September 1666
On the night of Saturday, September 1, 1666, one of the king's bakers, Thomas Farynor, went to bed above the bakery he kept on Pudding Lane in London, a few blocks from London Bridge. The day had been hot and dry, like most days that summer, but not nearly as hot as the night would be.
Sometime after midnight, the household woke to a cloud of thick black smoke, rising from the bakery below. Farynor, or one of his servants, had apparently failed to fully extinguish the fires that heated the bakery's ovens that day. Now the house was ablaze.
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