The Great Fire
NE Sunday morning in September, just 285 years ago, Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, was called to the window by one of his wife’s maids to see the great fire in the city. "I thought it far enough away," he relates, "and so to bed, and to sleep." But by breakfasttime 300 houses had been burned down, in the first stages of the greatest catastrophe in London’s_ history. This ‘Jamentable fire" broke out at Master Farryner’s, the King’s baker, in Pudding Lane. Pepys teils of the panic-stricken _towns-people staying in their houses till the very flames touched them, flinging their goods into the river to save them from the fire which raged every way. "And nobody," he remerks, "to my sight, endeavouring to quench it." For nearly four days London burned. When finally stepped at Pie Corner, the fire had destroyed St. Paul’s Cathedral and 87 other churches, end more than 13,000 houses, leaving 200,000 people-all but 50,000 ef Lenden’s population-homeless. On ‘Sunday, September 2, in 3ZB Presents, at 8.45 p.m., listeners will hear Ordeal By Fire to mark the anniversary of the conflagration that devastated 17th Century London. ,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 15
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192The Great Fire New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 15
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