A to Z Challenge – G is for

Great Fire of London

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A little after midnight on Sunday 2nd September 1666, Thomas Farriner was awakened from sleep by the smell of burning. Farriner, as might be guessed by his name, was a baker, and the fire in his oven had got out of control. Farriner roused his family and fled the premises but his maid, asleep in a back room wasn’t able to get out and became the first casualty of what came to be known as the Great Fire.

The fire burne...