PEOPLE
He was the baker in whose shop the fire started.
Thomas Farriner
The fire began in this street.
Pudding Lane
The fire started because Thomas Farriner forgot to close this.
The oven door
The top of a building.
The year of the Great Fire.
1666
This man wrote about the fire in his diary.
Samuel Pepys
Many people escaped the flames by fleeing to this river.
The River Thames
Fire-fighters tried to stop the fire with this.
Buckets of water
A tall building where Pepys watched the fire.
A tower
The fire burned for this many days.
Four
He was the King of England during the fire.
Charles II
This famous church burned down in the fire.
St Paul’s Cathedral
What did Pepys suggest to stop the fire from spreading?
To blow up the houses nearby
A person who fights fires.
A fire-fighter
About this many houses were destroyed.
13,000 houses
This official was slow to act during the fire.
Thomas Bludworth, the Lord Mayor.
Pepys went here to see the King.
Whitehall Palace
The fire finally stopped after this happened.
The wind changed direction.
A big important church.
A cathedral
Only this many people died.
9
This maid worked for Thomas Farriner and sadly died in the fire.
Mary
Pepys climbed this tall building to see the fire spreading across London.
The Tower of London
Fifty years after the fire, London had ______ streets and a new ________. What important problem was finally gone?
Wide
Cathedral
The rats! 🐭
Soldiers did this to houses to stop the fire from spreading.
They pulled them down.
About this many churches were destroyed in the fire.
90