| rdfs:comment | - The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the City of London, on September of 1666. The Muggles are convinced that the Great Fire of London started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, but there is debate among the wizarding community whether it began in the bakery or in the basement of the house next door, where legend has it a young Welsh Green was being kept.
- The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666.[1] The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall. It threatened, but did not reach, the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums.[2] It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.[3] The death toll is unknown but traditionally thought to have been small, as only six verified deaths were recorded. This reasoning has recently been challenged on the grounds that the deaths
- The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the City of London from at least twelve o'clock, and resulted in a moderate amount of civic improvement and a tragic loss of one of the city's foremost collections of puddings. Before this fire, two early fires of london, one in Charles Dickens's hair and the other caused by Samuel Pepys's notebook flicking, both of which destroyed a large part of the city, were known by the same name. The fire of 1666 was one of the biggest celebrity occasions in the history of London, and came at the end of the Great Plaque of London — an outbreak of bad dentistry that killed perhaps hundreds of thousands —the Great Fire is thought to have brought a quicker end to the plaque, by killing off the rogue disease-carrying dentists and their
- Prior to witnessing the cause, the Doctor had been accused of starting the fire. (TV: Pyramids of Mars) The Fourth Doctor witnessed the outset of the fire at a distance and urged the Republicans and the forces of Charles II to stop fighting and work together to put out the fire. Sergeant George Mullens, suspicious of the strangeness of the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, attempted to arrest them for starting the fire. (PROSE: The Republican's Story) In the aftermath of the Great Fire, the English Catholics were falsely accused of having started it. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution)
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| abstract | - The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666.[1] The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall. It threatened, but did not reach, the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums.[2] It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.[3] The death toll is unknown but traditionally thought to have been small, as only six verified deaths were recorded. This reasoning has recently been challenged on the grounds that the deaths of poor and middle-class people were not recorded, while the heat of the fire may have cremated many victims leaving no recognisable remains. The Great Fire started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane, shortly after midnight on Sunday, 2 September, and spread rapidly west across the City of London. The use of the major firefighting technique of the time, the creation of firebreaks by means of demolition, was critically delayed owing to the indecisiveness of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Bloodworth. By the time large-scale demolitions were ordered on Sunday night, the wind had already fanned the bakery fire into a firestorm which defeated such measures. The fire pushed north on Monday into the heart of the City. Order in the streets broke down as rumours arose of suspicious foreigners setting fires. The fears of the homeless focused on the French and Dutch, England's enemies in the ongoing Second Anglo-Dutch War; these substantial immigrant groups became victims of lynchings and street violence. On Tuesday, the fire spread over most of the City, destroying St. Paul's Cathedral and leaping the River Fleet to threaten Charles II's court at Whitehall, while coordinated firefighting efforts were simultaneously mobilising. The battle to quench the fire is considered to have been won by two factors: the strong east winds died down, and the Tower of London garrison used gunpowder to create effective firebreaks to halt further spread eastward. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
- The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the City of London from at least twelve o'clock, and resulted in a moderate amount of civic improvement and a tragic loss of one of the city's foremost collections of puddings. Before this fire, two early fires of london, one in Charles Dickens's hair and the other caused by Samuel Pepys's notebook flicking, both of which destroyed a large part of the city, were known by the same name. The fire of 1666 was one of the biggest celebrity occasions in the history of London, and came at the end of the Great Plaque of London — an outbreak of bad dentistry that killed perhaps hundreds of thousands —the Great Fire is thought to have brought a quicker end to the plaque, by killing off the rogue disease-carrying dentists and their fleas. However, this is doubtful since the fire was confined to the non-prosperous business and residential districts, leaving the dentist-infested slums intact. It destroyed 13,200 bricks, 87 parish councils, 6 chaps, 44 brothels, 19 brassiere boutiques, 12 partridges, 13 chickens of the Custom House, and other unimportant buildings. The fire also caused the death of some 30,000 puddings at that time, the vast bulk of the country's supply. Only six verifiable deaths are recorded.
- Prior to witnessing the cause, the Doctor had been accused of starting the fire. (TV: Pyramids of Mars) The Fourth Doctor witnessed the outset of the fire at a distance and urged the Republicans and the forces of Charles II to stop fighting and work together to put out the fire. Sergeant George Mullens, suspicious of the strangeness of the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, attempted to arrest them for starting the fire. (PROSE: The Republican's Story) Shortly thereafter, George, Helen, Ida and Alan Mortimer were rescued from the Great Fire by the First Doctor. It is possible that, for a brief period after the First Doctor's arrival, there were three separate incarnations of the Doctor co-existing in the same time period and in close promixity to one another. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space) In the aftermath of the Great Fire, the English Catholics were falsely accused of having started it. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution) The renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme claimed to have been present for the Great Fire. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns) A column at the bottom of King William Street — close to the Bank of England building in the City — commemorated the event. Its plaque, however, neglected to mention the Doctor's involvement in the tragedy. It read in part: "In the year of Christ 1666, on 2 September, at a distance eastward of this place of 202 ft, which is the height of this column, a fire broke out in the dead of night which, the wind blowing, devoured even distant buildings, and rushed devastating through every quarter with astonishing swiftness and noise..." (PROSE: Matrix) As the Terileptil involvement was equally unknown, it was widely believed that the people of London were so scared they set fire to London. Alistair Gryffen noted this as an example of events concerning the spread of fear. (TV: Fear Itself) The Twelfth Doctor forewarned the Great Fire of London to the immortal Lady Me in 1651, noting that it would come after a second bout of the bubonic plague ravaged London, realising that Me had endured the Black Death of 1348. Me suggested that she would be the one to start the fire, only for the Doctor to tell her that the Terileptils would be responsible. (TV: The Woman Who Lived)
- The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the City of London, on September of 1666. The Muggles are convinced that the Great Fire of London started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, but there is debate among the wizarding community whether it began in the bakery or in the basement of the house next door, where legend has it a young Welsh Green was being kept.
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