Where did the Great Fire of London happen?

Answer 1

The great fire of London was started by a man named Thomas Farriner (or Farynor). One night Thomas started the fire to cook the bread and he went upstairs forgetting about the fire. The fire latched onto the straw which set the whole house on fire and in those days the houses were all close together so the fire spread. This started the Great Fire of London.
It started on 2nd September when some coal fell out of a bakers oven on to some straw

Answer 2

Thomas Farrinor, his family and maid were sleeping when they woke to the smell of smoke. Thomas had forgotten to put out the embers in his oven and it had caught fire. The maid died but Thomas escaped.

Answer 3

It started on 2nd September 1666 in a baker's shop in Pudding lane and burned for four days destroying over 13,000 houses. It spread so rapidly that it also destroyed the rats - the carriers of the fleas that caused the Plague. Pudding Lane still exists, although the baker's shop is obviously no longer there. Incidentally, The Monument, built by Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire, is 202 feet tall, which is the distance from the base of the Monument to the site of the baker's shop in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started.

Answer 4

The Great Fire of London, which took place in the Summer of 1666, started in a bakery in a side-street known as Pudding Lane. The baker left his oven fires unattended for a while, which caused hot sparks to drift out of a side-window and ignite the dry timbers of the premises next door.

From then on, the blaze spread rapidly from building to building, street to street, until in the end whole boroughs were an inferno. In those days, most buildings were built of a wooden and wattle superstructure on a brick base, and many were already very old, dating back to early Tudor times or even the Plantagenet era. Their timbers were dry, and many were poorly maintained, especially rented properties owned by absentee landlords who didn't bother to upkeep or maintain the buildings. In addition, streets were very narrow with the buildings packed very closely together on each side- in some cases, it was possible for someone on the top floor of a house or shop to lean out of the window and touch the gables of the building opposite across the street!!

Although it was devastating, the fire claimed only a dozen or so lives thanks to an extremely efficient programme of evacuation and containment organised by the authorities. King Charles II took personal control of the relief effort, afterwards organising a large financial programme to rebuild those parts of the city that were worst affected, and to provide relief and aid to all those made homeless or unemployed as a result of the disaster.

Answer 5

The Great Fire of London started in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, London in 1666. Pudding Lane still exists now but the baker shop is no longer there as it burnt down in the fire.

Answer 6

At a bakery in Pudding Lane.