What damage was caused by the great fire of london?

Question

in terms of how many houses lost etc

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Answer 1

well obviously property was damaged and people died. If you go online you should be able to find something

Answer 2

approx. 80% of london city was destroyed in the great fire.

The damage could have been worse were it not for a fire about 3 years previous that created a fire break.

The city walls kept the fire in apart from down at Ludgate where it spilt out as far as fleet street.

A year later it happened again, this time on the south of the river

Answer 3

The great fire of London took place on Sunday, 2 September 1666 causing the destruction of medieval London. Within five days the city was ravaged by fire.

acres inside the city wall, 63 acres outside, 87 churches and 13,200 houses. Amazingly, only six people were definitely known to have died - but it would seem probable that many more perished.

The fire began in the house and shop of Thomas Farynor, the King's baker, in Pudding Lane. His assistant awoke to find the house full of smoke and, his master roused, the household tried to escape through a window and along a roof gutter to a neighbouring house. All were successful except for a maid servant who was said to be too frightened to clamber over the roof. She stayed and became the first victim of the fire.

The sparks from the burning home fell on hay and fodder in the yard of the Star Inn at fish Street Hill and the fire from the inn set light to the Church of St. Margaret. It spread in waves down Pudding Lane and Fish Street Hill to the warehouses and wharves of Thames Street where tallow, oil, spirits and hemp were stored, and hay, timber and coal lay heaped on open quays. By 8am, some six hours later, it was halfway across old London Bridge. Only the gap created by the 1633 fire prevented it from engulfing Southwark.

By the time Samuel Pepys had been called from his home in Seething Lane and made his way to the Tower, more than 300 houses and Fishmongers Hall, the first of 44 livery halls, were in flames or ruins. He realised at once that disaster was looming and hurried off to the Court in Whitehall.

There was little useful equipment to fight the blaze. Various statutes had obligated the parishes to provide buckets and axes, ladders, squirts and fire hooks, but many were rotted through neglect, and water supplies, apart from the river, were scarce.

Lord Mayor Bludworth, who arrived on the scene, was timorous when asked if houses could be pulled down to make fire-breaks. 'Who will pay for the rebuilding?' he replied. However, Pepys returned with the Royal command that houses were to be pulled down but the 'trained bands' called out to help began their demolition work too close to the fire and the ruins they left could not be cleared in time and merely became added fuel.

As the fire continued apace, so did the efforts to contain it and gunpowder was used to blow up houses - often with excessive success. That night, the inn where Shakespeare and Ben Johnson used to drink, was burned to the ground as the fire raged onwards. For three more days, it blazed among the tenements before it was brought to a half at Temple Church near Holborn Bridge.

Then, as the panic waned and faltering relief began, the fire leapt into life again and threatened to continue towards Westminster. Luckily, the Duke of York managed to prevent it from gaining a foothold, ordering the destruction of the Paper House to break its path.

The devastation caused by the fire lasted for many years. Though casualties were minimal, thousands were ruined, debtors' prisons became overcrowded and the capital was scarred.

After the Great Fire, changes were mooted which provided the first stepping stone to the organised firefighting of the future. Old wooden houses were replaced by brick ones and owners began to insure their premises against fire.

Insurance companies were granted charters to provide fire assurances and they realised it was in their own interests to hire men to put out fires in buildings under their cover. They introduced new fire engines, some of them designed on the continent, and firefighters were recruited from the watermen who plied the Thames.

Every policy holder was issued with a metal badge or fire mark which was fixed to the outside of a building. When a fire broke out it was not unusual for more than one company's 'brigade' to arrive at the scene. If the fire mark was not their own, they would leave the building, quite often to burn.

Gradually, the insurance industry expanded and, as it did so, the 'brigades' began to co-operate and the companies began to realise their efforts would be better directed channelled through a single force. Thus, after several attempts, the London Fire Engine Establishment came into being in 1833.

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