The Great Fire of London

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The Great Fire of London

• By Miss Rowland

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Where and when did the Great Fire begin?
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Where do you think this is and what can you see?
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Look at these paintings. With a talk partner
describe what they are wearing and their
hairstyles.
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All of these people lived a very long time ago.
It was called the Stuarts period.
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The Great Fire of London

• The fire started on
• Sunday 2nd September 1666.
• The weather was hot, dry and windy.

• It began in a bakery on Pudding lane.
• In the early hours of the morning.

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What happened in the Great Fire?

• Week 2

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Whilst listening to the story of the Great Fire
dont forget to think about these questions

• Why did the fire start?
• Where did it start?
• What happened?
• Why did it end?
• What were the results of the fire?
• Why was it called the Great Fire?
• Fire Of London

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Here is a timeline of the events of the Great
Fire

• Saturday 1st September 9pm Thomas Farryner
  prepared for Sabbath and went to bed.
• Sunday 2nd 1-2 am. The fire starts in the
  bakery.
• 3am the fire destroyed Pudding Lane.
• 4am the parish constable and watchman contacted
  the Lord Mayor.
• 7am 300 houses had been burnt.
• 8am Samuel Pepys walked to the tower where he
  watched people leaving London.
• 10am Samuel Pepys told the King to pull the
  houses down.
• 6pm the navy blew up some houses.
• Monday 3rd September 4am Samuel Pepys left for
  Bethanal Green.

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Timeline Continued

• 9am Fire posts are set up around the city.
• 11am Samuel Pepys returned to bury his wine and
  cheese.
• 3pm Lombard street, the financial heart of the
  city is destroyed.
• Tuesday 4th September 8 am. The fire is at its
  most fierce.
• 3pm the Tower of London is saved by blowing up
  surrounding buildings.
• 8pm the fire reaches Saint Pauls.
• Wednesday 5th September 1 am the Queen leaves for
  Hampton Court.
• Noon the fire is put out.

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Why did the fire spread so far and stay alight so
long?

• Week 3

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Look at the picture below. Why do you think the
fire spread so quickly?
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This shows a seventeenth-century church.

• Why do you think people took refuge inside these
  buildings?

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How the fire was put out
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The Fire Fighters.

• In 1666 there was no fire brigade.
• The people had to use buckets of water passed
  along a line.
• After the fire horse-drawn engines appeared in
  London for the first time.

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How do we know what happened in the Great Fire?

• Week 4

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What can you see in this painting? Pretend you
are there.
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Now look at this and discuss what you can see.
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Finally Discuss what is happening here
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All of these paintings were painted by
eyewitnesses.

• An eyewitness is somebody who was there at the
  time.
• They were able to watch (witness) the events with
  there own eyes.
• Many Londoners witnessed the fire.

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The Most Famous eyewitness

• Do you remember Samuel Pepys?
• He is the most famous eye witness of the Great
  Fire.
• He wrote down what he saw in his diary.

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Extracts from his diary.

• Lords dayJane called us up about 3 in the
  morning to tell us of a great fire they had seen
  in the city.
• I walked to the Towerand there I did see the
  houses at the end of the bridge all on fire
• I lay down and slept a good night about
  midnightit was a strange thing to see how long
  this time look since Sunday