MoEML: Pudding Lane Pudding Lane List documents mentioning Pudding Lane List variant names and spellings Pudding Lane is most famously known as the starting point of the Great Fire of 1666 . The origin of its name is contested by historians but is most likely consistent with Stow’s explanation in his Survey of London: Then haue yee one other lane called Rother Lane, or Red Rose Lane, of such a signe there, now commonly called Pudding Lane, because the Butchers of Eastcheape haue their skalding House for Hogges there, and their puddinges [entrails] with other filth of Beastes, are voided downe that way to theyr dung boates on the Thames ( 1.210–11 ). Henry A. Harben, Gillian Bebbington, and Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert support Stow’s account of the origin. However, Edward Waterhouse (1619–1670) gives a different explanation in his Narrative, understanding pudding as a favourite national dish rather than the medieval word for guts and entrails ( Weinreb and Hibbert 625 ).

Edward Waterhouse introduces Pudding Lane as a place so called, but for some eminent seller or sellers of Puddings living of old there, it being a regular practice to name streets after that which was produced or sold in the vicinity (as in Bread Street , Milk Street , and Candlewick Street ). He dubs pudding the general beloved diſh of Engliſh men Pudding Lane ran south from Little Eastcheap down to Thames Street , with New Fish Street ( Newfyshe Streat ) framing it on the west and Botolph Lane on the east. The only intersecting street on Pudding Lane is St. George’s Lane , and the nearby parishes include St. Margaret’s , St. Magnus’s , St. Botolph’s , St. George’s , and St. Leonard, Eastcheap . On Ekwall’s map it is labeled as Rother (Pudding) Lane after Stow’s account of the lane’s former title. Pudding Lane is contained within Billingsgate Ward . Eastcheap (the eastern counterpart to Westcheap or Cheapside , ceap meaning originally to barter and eventually becoming the noun for market) was the primary meat market in London.

Pudding Lane was lined with butchers’ stalls ( Bebbington 120 ). Bebbington notes that in 1402 the butchers were granted an alley where they might dispose of entrails known as puddings. Pudding Lane ran conveniently towards the river from Eastcheap . Harben reports that butchers were licenced to build a bridge over the Thames with houses thereon, whence they might cast offal into the Thames at ebb-tide In Stow’s time the lane was chiefly inhabited by Basketmakers, Turners and Butchers ( Stow 1.211 ). Waterhouse, writing later in the seventeenth century, remarks that people of labour and poor condition ply in this working early in the morning and late at night when the Tyde serves to bring up Fishermen, Passengers, and other Boats and Portages. They would then sell their puddings, hoping to bring the place in request with travelers ( sig. C8v ). Al Smith remarks that the butchers have since relocated to Smithfield and Leadenhall markets ( 164–65 ), a progression that likely began in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The Great Fire began on Sunday, 2 September 1666 at around 2 a.m. in the house of Thomas Farriner (also Farryner), the King’s baker, at a site which is now occupied by 25 Pudding Lane ( Smith 164–65 ). Due to a strong eastern wind, the flames spread quickly throughout the city and raged until Thursday 6 September, a full four days later, having consumed 89 churches, 13,200 houses and 400 streets ( 145–46 ). The fire proceeded south from Pudding Lane towards the bridge, where it crossed Thames Street , ignited St. Magnus’s Church , destroyed London Bridge , and then blew north again, heading westward down Thames Street ( Vincent sig. E3v-E4r ). Major buildings destroyed included St. Paul’s Cathedral , 52 of the livery company halls, the Guildhall , the Custom House , the Royal Exchange , Newgate prison, Bridewell , and the compters at Wood Street and Poultry ( Porter ). There have been many speculations about who started the fire and how it began but none has been sufficiently proven.

Robert Hubert, an alleged arsonist, was one of many accused of the crime. He confessed to launching fireballs at Farriner’s house but his story was unconvincing and he was thought to be deranged. Nevertheless, he was hanged at Tyburn on 27 October ( Porter ). For many years, the Great Fire was considered a Catholic act of rebellion, potentially connected to the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605. Thomas Vincent (1634–78) gives the following account, seeing the disaster as an opportunity to spread hatred of the Catholic religion to younger generations of Londoners: this doth smell of a Popish design so hatcht in the same place where the Gunpowder plot was contriv’d, only that this was more successful.

The world sufficiently knows how correspondent this is to Popish principles and practises; those, who could intentionally blow up King and Parliament by Gunpowder, might (without any scruple of their kinds of conscience) actually burn an heretical City (as they count it) into ashes: for besides the Dispensations they can have from his Holiness, or rather his Wickedness the Pope, for the most horrid crimes of Murder, Incest, and the like; It is not unlikely but they count such an action as this meritorious (in their kind of merit) [. . .] I believe that the people will now take more heed of them and their waies; and instead of promoting their cause, I hope that a contrary effect is produced; and that the before Indifferency of a generation more newly sprung up, who did not know them, is now turned into loathing and detestation of such a religion, as can allow of such practices.

Waterhouse cites one of the major causes of the fire’s spread: the sheer volume of combustible materials surrounding the site, including a Bakers stack of wood in the house, and [in] all the neighbouring houses, full of Hay and other combustibles, and finally a lodge on Thames Street filled with Oyl, Hemp, Flax, Pitch, Tar, Cordage, Hops, Wines, Brandies, and other materials favourable to Fire ( sig. C8v-D1r ). Farriner maintained that it was not negligence on his part that began the fire ( Porter ), and a committee set up to discover the cause concluded it was a combination of a very dry season, a great easterly gale, and an Act of God ( Smith 145–46 ). Other contributing factors were failure to isolate the fire by demolishing the surrounding houses, the and fewer early morning witnesses than there would have been on a weekday ( Porter ). Pudding Lane has been mentioned in some monumental literary works.

Andrew Marvell’s poem Nosterdamus’s Prophecy (1689) makes reference to Pudding Lane, citing Hubert’s alleged claims of attacking Farriner’s house with fireballs: FOR Faults and Follies London’s Doom ſhall fix, And She muſt ſink in Flames in Sixty ſix; Fire-Balls ſhall fly, but few ſhall ſee the Train, As far as from White-hall to Pudding-Lane, To burn the City, which again ſhall riſe, Beyond all hopes, aſpiring to the Skies. The lane appeared in dramatic works as well. For instance, the character Touch of Nahum Tate’s farce Cuckold’s-Haven (1685), performed at the Queen’s Theatre in Dorset, mentions a blind Tap-house in Pudding Lane ( sig. E4v ).

The following exchange in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1583) tells us something about the types of trades and attitudes associated with Pudding Lane prior to the Great Fire of 1666: Haukes: Be you not a Hosier, and dwell in pudding lane? M Hug: Yes that I am, and there I do dwell. Haukes: It would seeme so, for ye can better skill to eate a pudding and make a hose then in Scripture eyther to answere or oppose. ( sig. 4C5v ) Finally, John Griggs (1551/2–1598), a carpenter who built The Rose theatre for Philip Henslowe in 1587, lived in Pudding Lane in the parish of St. Margaret, New Fish Street —the same parish as Thomas Farriner, and probably mere steps away from the very site where the baker lived in 1649, and where the fire began only 51 years after Grigg’s death.

Great Fire of London 1666 The people of London who had managed to survive the Great Plague in 1665 must have thought that the year 1666 could only be better, and couldn't possibly be worse! Poor souls…they could not have imagined the new disaster that was to befall them in 1666. A fire started on September 2nd in the King's bakery in Pudding Lane near London Bridge. Fires were quite a common occurrence in those days and were soon quelled. Indeed, when the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Bloodworth was woken up to be told about the fire, he replied "Pish! A woman might piss it out!" . However that summer had been very hot and there had been no rain for weeks, so consequently the wooden houses and buildings were tinder dry. The fire soon took hold: 300 houses quickly collapsed and the strong east wind spread the flames further, jumping from house to house. The fire swept through the warren of streets lined with houses, the upper stories of which almost touched across the narrow winding lanes. Efforts to bring the fire under control by using buckets quickly failed. Panic began to spread through the city.

As the fire raged on, people tried to leave the city and poured down to the River Thames in an attempt to escape by boat. Absolute chaos reigned, as often happens today, as thousands of 'sightseers' from the villages came to view the disaster. Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, the diarists, both gave dramatic, first-hand accounts of the next few days. Samuel Pepys, who was a clerk of the Privy Seal, hurried off to inform King Charles II. The King immediately ordered that all the houses in the path of the fire should be pulled down to create a 'fire-break'. This was done with hooked poles, but to no avail as the fire outstripped them! By the 4th September half of London was in flames. The King himself joined the fire fighters, passing buckets of water to them in an attempt to quell the flames, but the fire raged on. As a last resort gunpowder was used to blow up houses that lay in the path of the fire, and so create an even bigger fire-break, but the sound of the explosions started rumours that a French invasion was taking place…. even more panic!! As refugees poured out of the city, St.

Paul's Cathedral was caught in the flames. The acres of lead on the roof melted and poured down on to the street like a river, and the great cathedral collapsed. Luckily the Tower of London escaped the inferno, and eventually the fire was brought under control, and by the 6th September had been extinguished altogether. Only one fifth of London was left standing! Virtually all the civic buildings had been destroyed as well as 13,000 private dwellings, but amazingly only six people had died. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Eighty-nine parish churches, the Guildhall, numerous other public buildings, jails, markets and fifty-seven halls were now just burnt-out shells. The loss of property was estimated at £5 to £7 million. King Charles gave the fire fighters a generous purse of 100 guineas to share between them. Not for the last time would a nation honour its brave fire fighters. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, a poor demented French watchmaker called (Lucky) Hubert, confessed to starting the fire deliberately: justice was swift and he was rapidly hanged.

It was sometime later however that it was realised that he couldn't have started it, as he was not in England at the time! Although the Great Fire was a catastrophe, it did cleanse the city. The overcrowded and disease ridden streets were destroyed and a new London emerged. A monument was erected in Pudding Lane on the spot where the fire began and can be seen today, where it is a reminder of those terrible days in September 1666. Sir Christopher Wren was given the task of re-building London, and his masterpiece St. Paul's Cathedral was started in 1675 and completed in 1711. In memory of Sir Christopher there is an inscription in the Cathedral, which reads, "Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice". - "If you seek his monument, look round". Wren also rebuilt 52 of the City churches, and his work turned the City of London into the city we know today. Some buildings did survive the conflagration, but only a handful can still be seen to this day. For details and photos, please see our article, ' Buildings that Survived the Great Fire of London' .

BBC - History - London's Burning: The Great Fire London's Burning: The Great Fire By Bruce Robinson Last updated 2011-03-29 In September 1666 the heart of England's capital, the City of London (now London's financial district), was devastated by fire. Everyone knows the Great Fire of London started in a baker's shop in the aptly named Pudding Lane, but was it an accident or a pernicious Papist plot? On this page Print this page Introduction Late summer, 1666: London was an emotional and physical tinderbox. Following decades of political and religious upheaval, the restoration in 1660 of the Protestant Charles II ensured that suspicion lingered around republicans and Catholics alike. With the country also at war with the French and Dutch, paranoid xenophobia - a familiar English trait of the period - was rife. ...for years there had been warnings of London's total destruction by fire... Fires in London were common, even inevitable, given the capital's largely timber construction. Yet for years there had been warnings of London's total destruction by fire: in 1559 Daniel Baker had predicted London's destruction by 'a consuming fire'.

In April 1665, Charles had warned the Lord Mayor of London of the danger caused by the narrow streets and overhanging timber houses. Furthermore, a long, hot summer had left London dry and drought had depleted water reserves. Yet the greatest fear among Londoners was not fire. Plague had killed over 68,000 people in the previous two years. Although Charles II had returned to Whitehall in February 1666, London remained unsafe, with death carts still commonplace. What worried inhabitants most was the strong east wind. This, combined with the dry, dusty air, was known to be particularly effective in carrying plague. It would prove as equally efficient as fire in taking lives. Top London's burning Long Lane, Smithfield. Drawing of a house made from combustible materials, built before the Great Fire © Thus by September 1666, all that was required was a spark. This was provided at the house of Thomas Farynor, the king's baker in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge. At 2.00am on Sunday 2nd September his workman smelled smoke and woke the household.

The family fled across the nearby roofs, leaving only a maid, too scared to run, who soon became the first of the four listed casualties of the fire. With only narrow streets dividing wooden buildings, the fire took hold rapidly, and within an hour the Mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth, had been woken with the news. He was unimpressed, declaring that 'A woman might piss it out'. Yet by dawn London Bridge was burning: an open space on the bridge, separating two groups of buildings, had acted as a firebreak in 1632. It did so again: only a third of the bridge was burned, saving Southwark from destruction and confining the fire to the City of London, on the north bank. ...the smoke could be seen from Oxford, and Londoners had begun to flee to the open spaces of Moorfields and Finsbury Hill. Samuel Pepys lived nearby and on Sunday morning walked to the Tower of London. There he saw the fire heading west, fanned by the wind, and described 'pigeons... hovering about the windows and balconies till they burned their wings and fell down'.

With Bloodworth dithering, Pepys went to Whitehall, informing the King and his brother James, Duke of York, of the situation. Although Charles II immediately ordered Bloodworth to destroy as many houses as necessary to contain the fire, early efforts to create firebreaks were overcome by the strength of the wind, which enabled the fire to jump gaps of even twenty houses. By the end of Sunday the fire had begun to travel against the wind, towards the Tower, and Pepys had begun to pack. By the following dawn, the fire was raging north and west, and panic reigned. The Duke of York took control of efforts to stop the fire, with militias summoned from neighbouring counties to help the fight, and stop looting. But the flames continued relentlessly, devouring Gracechurch Street, Lombard Street, the Royal Exchange, and heading towards the wealthy area of Cheapside. By mid afternoon the smoke could be seen from Oxford, and Londoners had begun to flee to the open spaces of Moorfields and Finsbury Hill. Top Demolition By nightfall the streets were jammed with the carts of fleeing Londoners, and the fire was heading down Watling Lane, towards St Paul's Cathedral.

The next day saw the greatest destruction. Both the King and the Duke of York were immersed in the battle against the fire, which was contained until late afternoon, when it jumped over the break at Mercers' Hall and began to consume Cheapside, London's widest and wealthiest street. While Pepys was busy evacuating his house - digging a pit in which he buried 'a parmazan cheese as well as my wine and some other things' - he had an inspiration. 'Blowing up houses... stopped the fire when it was done, bringing down the houses in the same places they stood, and then it was easy to quench what little fire was in it'. ...embers were falling on Kensington, and flames surrounded St Paul's Cathedral, covered in scaffolding. Although demolition began to take effect in the east, in the west the fire had destroyed Newgate and Ludgate prisons, and was travelling along Fleet Street towards Chancery Lane. It was visible as far away as Enfield, embers were falling on Kensington, and flames surrounded St Paul's Cathedral, covered in scaffolding. This caught fire, soon followed by the timber roof beams. The lead roof melted and flowed down Ludgate Hill, and stones exploded from the building.

Within a few hours the Cathedral was a ruin. This marked the height of the inferno. On Wednesday morning the fire reached a brick wall - literally - at Middle Temple and at Fetter Lane. Workers took the opportunity to pull down more buildings and widen the break. At the same time, the wind slackened and changed direction, turning south and blowing the fire onto itself and into the river. In the north, it was being checked at Smithfield and Holborn Bridge, and the Mayor, finally useful, was directing demolition in Cripplegate. Top The aftermath By Thursday the fire was effectively extinguished, having destroyed 373 acres of the City - from the Tower in the East to Fleet Street and Fetter Lane in the West - and burning around 13,200 houses, 84 churches and 44 company halls. Officially, only four people died, but John Evelyn referred in his diary to 'the stench that came from some poor creatures' bodies' and the true toll is likely to have been much higher, rising further in the following months. The fire beaten, London's full attention could turn to the question of blame. The fire beaten, London's full attention could turn to the question of blame.

Hysteria had raged as fiercely as the flames, as frightened fingers fell on foreigners. On Sunday a schoolboy, William Taswell, had seen 'the ignorant and deluded mob... [venting] forth their rage against the Roman Catholics and Frenchmen' and his brother saw 'a Frenchman almost dismembered'. The King's Guard assaulted strangers for speaking poor English, and everywhere there was 'a great alarm of French and Dutch being risen', as Pepys reported. The Spanish Ambassador opened his house to all foreigners in fear of their lives - Protestant Dutch as well as Catholic French - as religious bigotry and xenophobia, born in the Reformation and raised by the Gunpowder Plot, surfaced again. On Thursday, Charles travelled to Moorfields to address the 100,000 people made homeless, one sixth of London's population. He declared that the fire had not been started by foreign powers or subversives, but had been an act of God. Few were convinced. A scapegoat was needed: the more foreign, the better. The wait was not a long one. Top The Parliamentary investigation At the end of September, a Parliamentary Committee was appointed to investigate the fire.

During the investigation a French Protestant watchmaker, Robert Hubert, confessed to having deliberately started the fire at the bakery with 23 conspirators. His colleagues claimed he was unbalanced and the details of his confession changed as flaws were continually unearthed. The Earl of Clarendon commented that 'Neither the judges, nor any present at the trial did believe him guilty; but that he was a poor distracted wretch, weary of his life, and chose to part with it'. He was helped by a jury - that included three Farynors - and was hanged at Tyburn. ...nothing hath yet been found to argue it to have been other than the hand of God upon us, a great wind, and the season so very dry... The Parliamentary committee reported in January 1667 that 'nothing hath yet been found to argue it to have been other than the hand of God upon us, a great wind, and the season so very dry'. Yet with Farynor declaring - as expected - that his ovens had been completely extinguished on the night in question, the committee was as widely believed as the Warren Report, and the cause of the fire became the grassy knoll of late seventeenth century conspiracy theorists.

In 1678, during the Popish Plot, Titus Oates declared that Jesuit priests were to set fire to the city, prompting a Commons resolution declaring that 'the City of London was burnt in the year 1666 by the Papists... to introduce arbitrary power and Popery into this Kingdom'. In 1685 the Duke of Monmouth, rebelling against the new King, the Catholic James II, accused him of deliberately starting the fire. It was not until 1831 that the inscription on the fire's commemorative Monument, blaming 'the treachery and malice of the Popish faction', was removed. An inferno caused by a forgetful baker, fuelled by a strong wind and indecisive leadership, was blamed on Catholics for over 150 years. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus, 2000) A City Full of People: Men and Women of London 1650-1750 by P.

Earle (1994) The London Encyclopaedia by Christopher Hibbert & Ben Weinreb (eds)(Macmillan, 1983) The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews (1970-83) Restoration London by Liza Picard (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997) The Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire by T.F. Reddaway (1940) The Building of London by John Schofield (1984) Top About the author Bruce Robinson is a professional journalist who graduated with a first class degree in History from Cambridge University, specialising in English Social, Political and Economic History from 1300 to 1600. The Thieves of Pudding Lane: A story of the Great Fire of London: Jonathan Eyers: A&C Black Childrens & Educational The Thieves of Pudding Lane A story of the Great Fire of London A&C Black Childrens & Educational Illustrations: £5.99 Please note that ebooks are subject to tax and the final price may vary depending on your country of residence.

Lorem About The Thieves of Pudding Lane Gripping historical adventure set during the Great Fire of London. A young boy orphaned by the Plague learns to survive as a thief on the streets of London - until fire breaks out... London, 1666. Orphaned by the Great Plague, Sam is soon starving on the streets - and desperate enough to steal some bread. He's quickly recruited as one of sinister Uncle Jack's children, and taught to pick pockets. If he gets caught by the law, the punishment will be death - and if he crosses Uncle Jack, it could be just as bad. Still, it's a living for Sam and his fellow thief Catherine... until the long, hot London summer means a blaze at the Pudding Lane bakery runs out of control... and they learn that Uncle Jack's schemes are far more evil than they knew. Running for their lives from thiefmasters, thieftakers and the Great Fire of London itself, can two reluctant criminals save an innocent life - and their own skins?

Reviews “This exciting adventure winds through the atmospheric streets of London and provides an excellent read with an authentic period setting.” – Sarah Brew, Parents in Touch “Shades of Oliver Twist and Fagin come to mind when reading this exciting story of a boy, orphaned by the Plague in the London of 1666. However, this is no copycat story but a well-written book with good historical detail. This is a well-known story but Jonathan Eyers breathes new life into the spread of the fire and ensuing panic. It would be perfect for reading aloud to children who may be studying the Great Fire in KS1. The cover is arresting...so will hopefully draw readers in and let them read a really good novel about one of the most famous events in English History.” – Janet Fisher, Children's Literature Consultant, Books for Keeps “This is a pacey, atmospheric story full of heart stopping moments.

It is so vividly told, you almost feel yourself choking on the smoke as you read it.” – Primary Times magazine “This is an exciting action story...set amid the terrors of the Great Fire of London...The book evokes a truthful picture of that terrible event...the story is very well written, full of dialogue, intense action and it shows the best of human love as Samuel and Catherine care for the naive Gideon.” – Historical Novel Society Fly Through 17th Century London | Londonist Fly Through 17th Century London By M@ M@ Fly Through 17th Century London A group of students at De Montfort University created this fly-through of 17th century London (skip to 0:50 in the video to get to the juicy stuff). The model focuses on the area around Pudding Lane and the bakery of Thomas Farriner, where the Great Fire of 1666 started. Although most of the buildings are conjectural, the students used a realistic street pattern and even included the hanging signs of genuine inns and businesses mentioned in Samuel Pepys' diary. More information on the source material and processes can be found on the team's blog .

The project is an entry in the Off The Map competition, in which students were invited to build 3-D digital models based on maps at the British Library, and using software by Crytek. We're impressed, and hope the model is developed into something playable, or perhaps a 17th century version of Street View, which historians could hone and add to. Last Updated 06 October 2016 Click for Comments (83 so far) ZDF That was really lovely, beautifully done, wonderfully atmospheric and very believable to me (as a Londoner). Thank you. Grace Smith An amazing and evocative piece of work, guys. Really like the development suggestions and will be watching this space...........:) vikitzi What a wonderful work. Just beautiful! Keely Bryant Amazing and beautiful!! hazyj The great fire started in Pudding Lane down where Momument is today. Pudding Mill Lane is near Stratford. Nice video still. Mihai Margoi so good, in fact, brilliant. I loved the music, t'was perfect. Herenotv This just makes me want an Assassin's Creed game set in London. Sarah Milton-Lomax Brilliant! Finsbury Gal Wow!

Fabulous - really amazing. Felt like you could have got out and walked around. Bet it smelled rank though! Patricia A. McGoldrick Beautiful! Bambic I certainly hope that someone can respond to this: was it a typo or was his name REALLY King "Carles" II or was the "h" accidentally omitted? Stoney Compton Superbly done. Thank you for the visit to the past. Bjørn Tennøe I really like the artwork! The camera movement, however, is too haphazard for my taste. Slower, more determined movement and a few (near) still images should add to the overall atmosphere and impression. Bethany As a historian, it is truly amazing. It bought chapter four of my doctoral thesis to life. Wonderful stuff!! numpty Rather reminds me of playing Assassin's Creed 2 on the Xbox (which was set in 15th century Florence): HKA brilliant - love the 3D recreation - well done! Andrea Berens Great but London is much better now! MartinNYID I find this much more appealing than the hard concrete prison the city has become. CBA Philippa Doran No horse manure? The streets look much too clean.

Where is all the traffic? What looks like trousers on the washing lines. Had they been invented in the early 17th Century? Perhaps they should do the same with the London of the 1930s, before the war and the rebuilding after the Blitz. I remember the London of those days. And of course in either days the streets would be crowded with people. Amarpal Biring Skyrim let you do this a long time ago. Mimi P Louiso Wonderful! x Nick Dedman Is this the same 3D engine used in Crysis 3? and if so could the map be downloaded and explored if you own the game? curliegirlie74 Wonderful job by all those who put this video together, I really enjoyed it! Do you have another copy of it somewhere where the video is slowed down a whole lot more? I'd love to see that format so I can really admire your graphics and gain a new perspective on your video. Thank you so much, beautiful job! Gerald R. Lucas Great work. Now, if we just had a holodeck. Josephine Siedlecka This is really beautiful. I hope you make more films like this. I could watch them for hours.

c'est moi So beautiful. As Grace Smith commented, "An amazing and evocative piece of work"....very true. I actually felt ....homesick, while watching it. Perhaps an odd choice of words, but I was THERE as I watched this. Great job. TCP1960 Period musik would've been much better. mam1018 Incredible! pleisch It's beautiful and the detail is amazing. I wish it went just a bit slower. It was a little dizzying and I wanted to look around more at the detail. Jamie This is AWESOME!!! I will be using it, along with the London Fire video, with my kids history lessons this week! We homeschool and I loved that I could show them the difference in then and now! Dave Arendash I do hope they make this available as an Oculus Rift demo Tony Durrant Excellent. Now, here's a thought: a series of similar projects (to be sold to schools) on Roman, Viking, Tudor street scenes (or whatever ends up in the curriculum), including 'pause and click' interaction to teach lifestyles, cultures, language, maths and so on. Marian Alison Well Done to everyone involved in the production.

This realistic interpretation helps us to understand better life at the time. The music was relaxing and perfect to accompany the flying theme. I could have watched so much more! Alex very cool J Bin Moved too quickly for me. I like to savor what I'm chewing on. Other than that I thought it was terrific! Olga Ruocco Daley This is totally amazing. I felt like I was there. I hope to see the ideas developed further. Well done! Vicki S Thank you, that was terrific. I thought there would be more gardens and vegetation. MacNutz2 . That is wonderful. While the streets and places were much cleaner than the streets of the time would have been, it's a great treatment.Time travellers dream stuff. Glad you cleaned it up. :) disqus_4Fw8t5kzKY This is so beautiful and yet somehow sad, as though I can feel the passage of the centuries. Three Miles an Hour Amazing! What I wouldn't give to be able to walk the streets during that time too! Jerry Morris Outstanding.Thanks for posting.. liptonius Amazing. In Sweden Malmo we ave a running concept built upon FAS3 unemploees.

The gouvernment pays for everything, they wont ever come close to your level, though thev'e spent years of "work" on it with about 100 perons in the group. Applause to the Pudding Lane Group. Very wonderful Cat Marcuri Beautiful work! I felt as though I was there! For a medieval historian like myself, I sincerely hope that this project continues in full speed, and brings to life more places I have studied but can never hope to see in real life. Unless they invent a time machine, of course! :D Richard Berelson As a Londoner I found that surprisingly moving. Well done, it's a very evocative trip. Very enjoyable. sven_archer WHY ARE ALL OF THE COMMENTS DATED THREE YEARS AGO, AS i AM IN HE LAST MONTH OF 2016, AND THE REST OF THE COMMENTS ARE FROM 2013? If this were a historical piece , sayibg so at the beginning would have been appreciated. The same goes for what the status of this project is today, if it exists at all.

OI also noticed a lack of people in this piece, with the exception of ( what I can only assume) are victims of the plague, laying dead in the street. Fairly grotesque, to say the least. Great Fire of London begins - Sep 02, 1666 - HISTORY.com Great Fire of London begins Share this: Great Fire of London begins Author Great Fire of London begins URL Publisher A+E Networks In the early morning hours, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II’s baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses filled with combustibles and a strong easterly wind transformed the blaze into an inferno. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on September 6, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died. The Great Fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. London of 1666 was a city of medieval houses made mostly of oak timber. Some of the poorer houses had walls covered with tar, which kept out the rain but made the structures more vulnerable to fire.

Streets were narrow, houses were crowded together, and the firefighting methods of the day consisted of neighborhood bucket brigades armed with pails of water and primitive hand pumps. Citizens were instructed to check their homes for possible dangers, but there were many instances of carelessness. So it was on the evening of September 1, 1666, when Thomas Farrinor, the king’s baker, failed to properly extinguish his oven. He went to bed, and sometime around midnight sparks from the smoldering embers ignited firewood lying beside the oven. Before long, his house was in flames. Farrinor managed to escape with his family and a servant out an upstairs window, but a bakery assistant died in the flames–the first victim. Sparks from Farrinor’s bakery leapt across the street and set fire to straw and fodder in the stables of the Star Inn. From the Inn, the fire spread to Thames Street, where riverfront warehouses were packed full with flammable materials such as tallow for candles, lamp oil, spirits, and coal. These stores lit aflame or exploded, transforming the fire into an uncontrollable blaze.

Bucket-bearing locals abandoned their futile efforts at firefighting and rushed home to evacuate their families and save their valuables. It had been a hot, dry summer, and a strong wind further encouraged the flames. As the conflagration grew, city authorities struggled to tear down buildings and create a firebreak, but the flames repeatedly overtook them before they could complete their work. People fled into the Thames River dragging their possessions, and the homeless took refuge in the hills on the outskirts of London. Light from the Great Fire could be seen 30 miles away. On September 5, the fire slackened, and on September 6 it was brought under control. That evening, flames again burst forth in the Temple (the legal district), but the explosion of buildings with gunpowder extinguished the flames. The Great Fire of London engulfed 13,000 houses, nearly 90 churches, and scores of public buildings. The old St. Paul’s Cathedral was destroyed, as were many other historic landmarks. As estimated 100,000 people were left homeless. Within days, King Charles II set about rebuilding his capital. The great architect Sir Christopher Wren designed a new St.

Paul’s Cathedral with dozens of smaller new churches ranged around it like satellites. To prevent future fires, most new houses were built of brick or stone and separated by thicker walls. Narrow alleyways were forbidden and streets were made wider. Permanent fire departments, however, did not become a fixture in London until well into the 18th century. In the 1670s, a memorial column commemorating the Great Fire of London was erected near the source of the calamity. Known as the Memorial, it was probably designed by the architect Robert Hooke, though some sources credit Christopher Wren. The column stands 202 feet above the pavement and features sculpture and engravings that tell the story of the conflagration. Even though an official inquiry into the Great Fire concluded that “the hand of God, a great wind, and a very dry season” caused it, an inscription on the Memorial (removed in 1830) blamed the disaster on the “treachery and malice of the Popish faction.” In 1986, London’s bakers finally apologized to the lord mayor for setting fire to the city.

Members of the Worshipful Company of Bakers gathered on Pudding Lane and unveiled a plaque acknowledging that one of their own, Thomas Farrinor, was guilty of causing the Great Fire of 1666. Related Videos Video: 3D animation: see London as it looked before the Great Fire - Telegraph London 3D animation: see London as it looked before the Great Fire This realistic fly-though of 17th century London's tightly packed streets has been awarded the top prize in a competition run by the British Library 3:53PM BST 25 Oct 2013 A team of six students from De Montfort University in Leicester have turned a historic map into a realistic and detailed 3D animation of Tudor London. The video shows the area around Pudding Lane in the City of London before the Great Fire of 1666. Some of the buildings are hypothetical, but all streets are based on original maps of the area. The animation has won the top prize in a competition to produce a 3D animation of a real historic setting, run by The British Library and video game developers GameCity and Crytek.

“The haze effect lying over the city is brilliant,” says Tom Harper, panel judge and curator at the British Library. “Great attention has been given to key features of London, complete with glittering window casements and other atmospheric cues.”

Question: Which historic event would you associate with Pudding Lane in London?
Answer: The Great Fire of London