· Copyright BBC. · In the year , Samuel Pepys describes the Great London Fire as a terrible fire that had destroyed a large part of London. Pepys was more distressed when he is able to see the fire more closely. He observes how pervasive it is and how much devastation and adversity it has caused. The Great Fire of London and The Diary of Samuel Pepys. years ago on the 2nd September , the Great Fire of London began, causing significant destruction throughout the city. Over , people lost their homes and acres of city were destroyed before the fire was extinguished on the 6th September Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
PODCAST: The Great Fire Of London through the diaries of Samuel Pepys read by The London Storyteller Posted by Thomas Barclay Matchett on September 3, | Featured I have often described the 17th century as the best century in history. Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, concerning the Great Fire of London Saturday 1 September Up and at the office all the morning, and then dined at home. Got my new closet made mighty clean against to-morrow. Sir W. Pen and my wife and Mercer and I to "Polichinelly," but were there horribly. The diary of Samuel Pepys () gives us a fly-on-the-wall account of life during the 17th century - from the devastation of war and plague, to the triumphant return of Charles II. But did you know that Pepys 'rescued' a cheese during the Great Fire of London and once kept a lion as a pet? Historical novelist Deborah Swift reveals seven fascinating facts about the diarist.
Samuel Pepys’ London: The Ultimate Self-guided Walking Tour. Most know of Samuel Pepys from his recording of the Great Fire of London in in his diary and famously burying his precious parmesan cheese in the garden to protect it from the flames. He was however, so much more than that. LM: This was the Fire of London, which had begun about an hour before in Pudding Lane, near Fish Street Hill, not far from London Bridge. It was to rage for four days and nights. Caused by an accidental fire in a bakery which spread quickly because of the dry season, it was wisely believed to have beewn started deliberately by foreign enemies or Papists, or both. Nearly everyone in England knows of Samuel Pepys, who wrote of the Great Fire of London and buried a block of cheese in his garden as the fire closed in on where he lived. Pepys taught us about the fire as it went, and now we look back on what he wrote during as we learn through history.
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