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How the Great Fire of London unfolded 350 years ago, hour by hour
The Telegraph ^
| 9-5-16
| Laurence Dodds
Posted on 09/04/2016 8:28:02 PM PDT by dynachrome
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Pretty cool. Hour by hour of the Great Fire of london
To: dynachrome
Well, at least it did clean out the rats and caused the plague to lessen. The morbidity and mortality sheets showed people were still dying of plague even though it had mostly “burned” out till the fire hit.
To: dynachrome
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posted on
09/04/2016 8:41:18 PM PDT
by
NRx
(A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
To: dynachrome
Just a few weeks ago I watched The Great Fire, a 2015 BBC/PBS series of 4 episodes about the bakery owner, his family, and the fire. It is on Amazon Prime. It might also be on PBS website.
Like many tele-productions, it is likely more fictional drama than historical accuracy.
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posted on
09/04/2016 8:47:07 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: dynachrome
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posted on
09/04/2016 9:34:34 PM PDT
by
W.
(Trump's here to kick ass or chew bubblegum, and he's all out of gum!)
To: dynachrome
Thanks for posting this. A fascinating bit of info I learned about the name Pudding Lane came from a recent series I watched (The Hairy Bikers: Pubs That Built Britain). The same info was also found on Wikipedia:
"According to the chronicler John Stow, it is named after the "pudding" (a medieval word for offal) which would fall from the carts coming down the lane from the butchers in Eastcheap as they headed for the waste barges on the River Thames. In Stow's words, "the Butchers of Eastcheape have their skalding House for Hog there, and their puddings with other filth of Beasts, are voided down that way to their dung boats on the Thames." The original name of the lane was "Offal Pudding Lane".
According to his diary, Samuel Pepys took refuge in "a little alehouse on bankside ... and there watched the fire grow". Historians believe that the alehouse is the Anchor Tavern on Bankside in London. The name Pepys is pronounced "Peeps."
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posted on
09/04/2016 9:39:51 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: dynachrome
Thanks, very interesting article.
To: dynachrome
Very interesting.
Bottom line: the fire was started by faggots.
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posted on
09/04/2016 9:55:41 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
To: bigbob
To: onedoug
To: mass55th
A couple of years ago, I was doing family research and came to find that original descendant who came out of England....was a life-long London resident and left about two months after the fire. He lived up on the north side of the river.
To: bigbob
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posted on
09/04/2016 10:49:38 PM PDT
by
moose07
(DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
To: pepsionice
I too have ancestors on my mother’s side who came from England, but haven’t yet pin-pointed the exact area. The Fox and Way families settled in the Long Island area, then moved to Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY.
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posted on
09/04/2016 10:55:59 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: mass55th
“...The name Pepys is pronounced “Peeps.”...”
I read all the article and mentally mispronounced Pepys the whole way.
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posted on
09/05/2016 12:25:27 AM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
( Even more American than a French Bikini and a Russian AK-47)
To: mass55th; All
Samuel Pepys’ diaries were the most interesting and educational diaries I've ever read. Sam wrote his diaries in shorthand, and included all the “tasty bits” of life in the 17th Century. You felt as if you were really there as he documented his day to day life in service of the King, and his home life with his wife and servants, his friends and relatives, etc. Because it was in his type of shorthand, he wrote freely and in detail. A really good read!
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posted on
09/05/2016 3:55:44 AM PDT
by
itssme
To: dynachrome
Of course, racist violence. It’s the west, after all!
If you really want to know about the great fire, read the wonderful Samuel Pepys. He was there and saw it all and recorded it all.
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posted on
09/05/2016 4:18:24 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
To: itssme
My favorite anecdote from Pepys’ diary was when his wife, upset as usual with him, heated a pair of tongs in the bedroom fireplace and while he was asleep attempted to catch his nose between them. Luckily, Sam woke up and fought her off. He had a thing for the ladies.
He stopped writing the diary because he thought he was going blind. He wasn’t so we lost years of his wonderful notations.
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posted on
09/05/2016 4:28:43 AM PDT
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miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
To: Nailbiter
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:38:49 AM PDT
by
IncPen
(Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
To: IncPen
read last night quite interesting
To: dynachrome
This is why London now has so many brick buildings.
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