The Great Fire of London started on Sunday, September 2 and continued to burn through Wednesday, September 5 in 1666. It started in a bakery on Pudding Lane and wasn’t extinguished until it reached Pye Corner. There were people at the time who said this was proof that the fire was God’s wrath against the City of London for the deadly sin of gluttony. True or not, London is still a terrific place to grab a pork pie. Or a pasty filled with beef, onions and mushrooms. Or real Italian gelato, or crispy aromatic duck, or peri-peri chicken or dim sum. But I digress. After the fire there were several radically different plans for the rebuilding of the city. But in the end they were all rejected, and London was reconstructed with pretty much the same street plan that it had before. They really do hate to change things around here.
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