ADEI PREZ GRANILLO

The Great Fire of London in 1666 started on 2nd September and finished on 6th
September.

The number of people living in London at that time was 600,000 and about one sixth
of them lost their houses.

Many buildings (more less 13,200) burned down and 80,000 people were left
without a house.

London lost more than 87 churches, including the beautiful Saint Pauls Cathedral.

Only 6 people lost their lives

The cost of the fire was about 30 million euros (London only made about 18,000
euros a year at that time)
SUNDAY
The fire started at Thomas Farriner's
bakery in Pudding Lane a on Sunday
2 September at 1:00am. The family
was trapped upstairs, but managed
to climb from an upstairs window to
the house next door, except for a
maid who was too frightened to try,
and became the first victim.

They ran to the river and there were
hundred of people on boats leaving.

When the hours passed everything
was on fire, all the houses, churches
and other buildings.

THE NEXT DAYS
During the next days, the fire was expanding in all directions and more buildings
were destroyed. But TUESDAY was the day of the greatest destruction.

TUESDAY

Everybody had thought St. Paul's
Cathedral was safe refuge, with its
thick stone walls. A lot of people were
there to be safe and they kept some of
the things they could take from their
houses.
However, the building was covered
in wooden scaffolding. The scaffolding
caught fire on Tuesday night. Within
half an hour, the lead roof was melting,
and the books and papers in the
cathedral helped the fire get bigger.
The cathedral was quickly a ruin.

Christopher Wren was a famous
English architect. After the fire, he
made plans for a beautiful new city.

King Charles II liked his plans, but
people wanted to go back to their
homes quickly. There wasnt time to
build everything again.

So the king told Wren to build all the
London churches again. For 50 years,
Wren did that and he built a new
Saint Pauls Cathedral, the one we
can see nowadays.
He also designed The Monument to
the Great Fire of London