KS1 Dance: Time to Move. The Great Fire of London. 1: The Fire begins in Pudding Lane. Movement and dance for children aged 6 - 8. The first of three dance sessions exploring the Fire of 1666.

Pudding Lane — where the Great Fire of London began in 1666 — will be recreated in a new exhibition marking the 350th anniversary of the disaster. Roof tiles warped by the fierce heat and ...

Although historians are still not sure why the plague did not return after fading out in the 1670s, it is clear the disease was already in decline from the winter of 1665, before the fire even ...

The Great Fire of London started in a bakery on Pudding Lane 344 years ago today. It destroyed four-fifths of the city and prompted Samuel Pepys to protect his prize parmesan by burying it.

This was provided at the house of Thomas Farynor, the king's baker in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge. ... confessed to having deliberately started the fire at the bakery with 23 conspirators.

Shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 2, 1666, a fire broke out at a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the days that followed, the fire proceeded to destroy around 80% of the old City of London.

Marking the Great Fire of London might seem an unusual celebration for any of us to get involved with. After all, the blaze which ended 350 years ago today in Pudding Lane ripped the heart out of ...

Thomas Dagger, a 'journeyman' (skilled worker employed by someone else) baker, was working in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane when he discovered the fire on 2 September 1666, and raised ...