Talk: Great Fire of London
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Do the fires of 798, 982, and 1666 have names? Anyone know? --Koyaanis Qatsi
1666 is just known as The Great Fire of London, the others...? Why are Pudding Lane and Monument in quotes? -- User:Robert Brook
I imagine each was called "The Great Fire" - until the next one. It's much like the Great Plague - a puny affair compared to those of the 14th century, but it's still the most recent, and therefore "Great". User:David Parker
I seem to remember that fish porters from Billingsgate used to race up and down the Monument with crates of fish on their heads, but I haven't been able to track down the circumstances of this. Mintguy 14:23, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I edited Charles II of England for James II who is the proper Stuart King at the time. Sparky 07:05, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- And yet the king for whom the baking was being done was Charles II. Go figure. -- Someone else 07:21, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- No I erred. Sorry
I removed some really excessive, unnecessary linking. One sentence ended, I'm not making this up, "managed to escape the burning building, along with his family, by climbing out through an upstairs window." Every vocabulary word in a sentence shouldn't be linked in this manner. Tempshill 05:36, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
"but incredibly only 9–16 people are known to have died."
I've read accounts that 6 deaths were "recorded." Recorded by the government? Given that the fire originated in the King's Baker's house, there could be an effect of information control. Does anyone know the origin and context of the "recorded data"? 1-2 hundred thousand were left homeless. Most of those people had to have left or died. It was not helped at all in the context of the 17th century, including Cromwell (who's head watched london burn from pole outside Westminster), and Three Dutch Wars that left England bankrupt and defeated. (viz. [1] [2])
I have never edited a page before so I'm not going to change the text. I prefer discussion. ~Rotsujin
