THAT SHOCK THE WORLD
The event that changed the face of 17th-century London forever
an Sunday 2
luptember, vand london was The five you all
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and his workers were inny
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making bread for the coming day
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when suddenly, a lue tacke ou.
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m very small spaces, A single
Sunt four days later, thenmands of
the famond na Over
He was often have to pay
Nons had been destroyed and
About this time.theorindation
Tarties as well as "ods, he
countless people wore homeless,
chanya dieten, dening the five
the catastrowe strut, people
How did this happen, and why
week wo si last, the fres
wickelt, sone had to watch
was the damage so serious?
benne lo strong enough to be
their done to get out of the
antes. The fewer twined,
for a fue to start, three things are
hones. The streets were blocked
needed, a spark, fuel and oxygen,
with people and watu material that
Although Sunggy few people
in the bakery in Pudding Lane,
had fallen from houses, Menn
le the bes, least 12000
how-
a maid didn't tend to the ovens
a nit A the city
people had grated their met
bunaings-hesournestothe
important possessions and were
properly, They got too hot and
sparks began to lly, the weather trying to escape from the flames
young, Thorusands of perse nad
become homeless and had lost
hat year had been extremely hot,
with them. They screamed in terra
hadn't rained for months. But
and suffered from the heat and the
everything they ownes. Gradually,
posle rekrut the houses i noins,
sople know winter was coming,
smoke. Some ran away from the
but s istok several years. Many
they'd stocked their cupboards
chy on boats. Others simply died
Londoners moved away from
into the river to save themselves,
en food and oil. Warchouses
the city and never returnes,
re full of wood, coal and other
ter supplies. A strong wind
blowing from the east. The
warioussaalargeouncingtor
ang things
etion provided the perfect
Suroy-ada other things
utions for fames to spread
waskary la loving
ly. What followed was one
on-somene who vastaa
biggest disasters of the
slate to see and stay for meas,
insomeone closs house
century world,​