American Couple Reacts: Great Fire of London! 1666! FIRST TIME REACTION!!
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- American Couple Reacts: Great Fire of London! 1666! FIRST TIME REACTION!! We talked about doing this in another video that only gave a slight mention of it. There's a lot of information here and the chills this video gave us are still felt. The Great Fire of London was an absolute devastation of insane proportions! We learned so much about it in this episode and yet there are still so many questions! A part of History that will always be talked about, even though so much will always be unknown. Let us know if you learned anything with us. Also, we had several questions during and after the Reaction and would love your responses if you have them. Thanks for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our UA-cam channel and it's FREE! Also please click the Like button. Thanks so much for watching!
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We talked about doing this in another video that only gave a slight mention of it. There's a lot of information here and the chills this video gave us are still felt. The Great Fire of London was an absolute devastation of insane proportions! We learned so much about it in this episode and yet there are still so many questions! A part of History that will always be talked about, even though so much will always be unknown. Let us know if you learned anything with us. Also, we had several questions during and after the Reaction and would love your responses if you have them. Thanks for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our UA-cam channel and it's FREE! Also please click the Like button. Thanks so much for watching!
Just ignore the trolls ,
You ladies are great and upload great content 👍
@da90sReAlvloc we do ignore them, they actually do help our videos with their comments though 😆
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow why of course, how are you both, hope you're doing really well?
Do love your videos, take great care both of you!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow as for your question ,
There is a 4 part TV series called the great fire 2014 about it. But no. Actual movie,
Great video you ladies stay safe 👍
@The Natasha & Debbie Show , You are both awesome and the trolls are just jealous because they most likely cannot create fantastic videos like you both can. Keep up the awesomeness 😎🤟
You might now be interested in 'The second great fire of London' 29th December 1940, the most intense fire bombing of the City of London during the Blitz and the remarkable efforts to save St Paul's Cathedral
Well said.
The free tours by foot London did a good video about that
London being a very rainy city is a myth. For example New York has on average twice that of London per year. Being foggy is another. Almost 0 fog in London. It used to have smog caused from coal fires. Love your vids. 👍
Exactly, It's the UK as a whole that has a high rainfall average due to the gulf stream carrying moisture leaden clouds from the Atlantic and smacking them into the hills and mountains on the west coast..
Exactly it bugs me that Americans think it rains all the time here ,we are 74 and America is a 112 down the list of wettest countries in the world it's not that big a difference considering how big America is.
@@tinastanley3552 True, But we don't help the image, Also because the amount of rainfall and the frequency with which it rains arent the same thing, It seems fair to me to say it rains on a lot of days in the UK, But that not a lot of rain falls each time it rains 🤔 unless your in the west of the country that is lol..
@@Markus117dRome and Paris both get more days of rain a year on a average than does London if you look a weather data
Very true and if the UK was a state in America it would be only the 28th wettest state, but of course there are places in the UK were we do have a lot of rain, the Lake District for example which on average it has 200 wet days a year.
There is one detail I'd bring up, especially as it relates to what you were saying at the end of your reaction.
It was actually the bakers maid who discovered the fire, who then woke the baker. Not only did that act save the bakers family, it allowed word to spread before the fire started consuming surrounding houses. So she could very well be the reason so few died. Unfortunately, we will never know who this maid was as there are no surviving records.
Also, the Duke of York should be remembered for actually fighting the fire up close and personal. While the King was gathering and sending resources, his brother was on the burning streets, like a general rallying his mauled troops, directing what efforts should go where.
As for causes, I think most believe the baker had left hot embers when he went to bed. He denied it but it's the most plausible theory. Another theory being that the maid discovered the fire because she accidentally started it by knocking/dropping a candle
We do know that the fire started in Pudding Lane but we don't know for definite if it started in the bakery but it is the best theory that we have as for the specific location for the start of this fire.
To get a feel of what the streets would have been like look at theShambles in York
Hi guys I just watched the fire of London vid and u mentioned the black plague I am a new subscriber to your channel so I don’t know if you have done the plague if not did you know nursery rhymes were written to tell the children what to look for it they thought a person was a plague carrier “. Ring a ring a roses a hand full of poses a tishyou a tishyou we all fall down “ because the spots were in rings on your body any you would start to smell so they used flowers to hold to there nose then they would start to sneeze then fall down dead . There were so many graves that the graves stretched way out of London and were they finished they called graves end which Ed it is still called today . Love what you do guy lots of love from Andy of Felixstowe suffolk UK.
Hi ladies!
Just a quick note about weather, London is generally a bit warmer than Cincinnati in winter and a bit cooler in summer. Cincinnati usually has slightly clearer skies but less hours of daylight. Finally, Cincinnati has more days with rain or snow than London. (I am in Manchester, one of the rainiest places in England, deliberately built in the bowl of the surrounding hills to maximise damp conditions for the cotton factories. So far, 2023 has been far more sunny than not.)
Despite popular belief it isn’t always raining in the UK. Particularly through the summer we can go for weeks and weeks without rain. Just last summer we actually had a drought and in many areas in the south were officially on a drought footing and water was rationed.
The fire breaks didnt work immediately because they pulled down but left the rubble so it still managed to catch the next house onfire. They eventually made sure the space was cleared to leave a proper gap.
You mentioned the plague , you should look up about Eyam the historic plague village in the Peak District, every child in sheffield at least (where I come from) is taught this in school and you may be able to find a video or such about Eyam all schools do trips there uts beautiful and at the end is Hathersage church where there is a grave of little John of Robin Hood fame ! Xx
The fire may have been contained in 4 days but my experience with big wood fires is that heavy rain does not put them out.
In my time working for the Royal Parks Dept Tree Gang we had to take down a large stand of 100+ year old elm trees on the island in the lake at Osterley Park [a couple of miles short of Heathrow air/pt] because of Dutch Elm disease [Thanks again, Canada. First the grey squirrel then 'Dutch' Elm disease]. We burned all the timber from these trees in a huge fire.
On Fridays we stacked it up and went off for the w/e. There was torrential rain all one w/e. It was still raining when we got back to the park on the Monday morning. I rammed a big stick deep into the top of the pyramid of ash and in 5 minutes the stick was burning and we had our fire back in action.
A friend who was a fireman concurred. Even after being hosed down so that a fire is no longer visibly burning, ash and embers can remain 'live' for days and reignite a building. No doubt this happend scores of times in The Gt Fire.
[We had the same job in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The difference was - no easy disposal of the timber in a fire. Every last twig andd leaf had to be carried from the site, across the lawns to a trailer, BY HAND! The Head gardner, with the highly appropriate name of Fred Nutbeam, refused to allow us to use even a wheel barrow. As each tree represented many tons of wood, this was a grunt]
Debbie is so adorable it hurts
There’s the odd tale of Mrs O’Leary’s Cow. A myth that she was milking her cow kicked over a lantern starting the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. Brian Wilson wrote a very odd song about it on ‘Smile’. Became a children’s song. We had as a kids song ‘London’s Burning’.
The tower you briefly saw at the end of the video and that the lady didn't mention was raised to comemorate the Great Fire. You can climb to the top of it, It gives a great view of the area involved.
"The Monument" is a 202ft *column,* built by Wren, with 311 steps exactly 202 feet away from the old supposed source of the fire on Pudding lane, but coincidentally also near to the now revised source on what is now Monument St.
The destruction was equivalent to all of Cincinnati south of W & E Liberty Sts to the river being burnt down.
I worked in the Custom House Lower Thames Street. Blue Plaque for the fire can be seen where fire started, go see if you have a bimble after going to the Tower of London. It was the bakery. They didn’t put it out properly but it made so much damage due to the houses hence the suggestion of pulling down houses. Pepys buried cheese in his garden 🤣🤣 great book True Story. Audio book by Kenneth Branagh via Audible. It’s very easy to listen too.
I watched a documentary about the fire the other month on British TV channel Channel 5. They aired a whole, in-depth series in 2017.
It sounds ridiculous to bury cheese, but back then it was probably one of the most expensive things he owned.
Most of England is incredibly water stressed, you're thinking of Ireland, Wales and Scotland - maybe a bit west of the Pennines too, but a lot of the country is in rain shadow. London gets about 2/3 the rainfall of Rome in Italy and about half that of Porto in Portugal, which most people would consider hot and dry - it's not as warm, but it's temperate which is no bad thing - but there's not a lot of rain. One of the things about rain in London (and a lot of England) is it's a lot more balanced through the year, the rain volumes in summer aren't much different from in winter, whereas say Rome is incredibly dry in the summer and very wet in the winter - people are more likely to visit in summer and so presume it's just as dry all year round. By the way on fire insurance Tom Scott recently put out a video saying essentially the if you don't have insurance thing might not be true - he had some research done and couldn't find any evidence for it.
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I really enjoyed that and learned some stuff.I liked the girl in the video too and her manner.Ive also loved having you girls on screen 3 times so close together!xx
Yerars ago, my Mum and I climbed the Fire Of London Monument. I think it has 365 steps with a railed viewing platform almost at the top. When we reached the top, my Mum wouldn't step out as she was afraid of heights. What a silly Billy
I live in a village where there are still fire insurance plaques on some of the cottages. Of course they are not valid any more but are really interesting.
Great video! This was a really well made on to react to as well.
During our Civil Wars, or rather during the Commonwealth / Republic period specifically there was a Parliament (as in the official parliament of the country) known as the Parliament of Saints, but better known as Barebone’s Parliament - named after Praise-God Barebone (which would have been 13 years before this). There was also a Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone but it’s unsure if that was his Baptismal name or his brother’s. That’s Puritans for you… I imagine there’d have been similar names in New England at the time too
Also Barebone’s house was one of those engulfed by the fire, one of the westernmost houses to be burned
The plaque and fire insurance is exactly how it worked in the US, until the late 19th century - supposedly if you didn’t have a plaque your fire didn’t get put out, that’s largely a myth as they would likely put the fire out otherwise other buildings would be at risk, you just wouldn’t get a payout.
They have some examples in the Philadelphia Fireman’s Hall Museum (and presumably elsewhere but that’s one I’ve been to) - and of course Cincinnati had the first professional fire department in the US in the mid-19th century
LOL That building at the start if the video is up the road from where I grew up. The buildings either side of it are far more modern.
Thankfully, the wind died down before the fire reached the Tower of London (just). It was so close that according to some reports, the outer gates were too hot to touch. The real problem was that the Tower was an arsenal and several hundred barrels of gunpowder were stored there. If one spark had landed on them, the results would have been catastrophic.
Love how you thanked the trolls. Looking forward to magic Monday. Ignore the haters
I'm from London we were taught that this was an accident in the bakery, but today, although this was the most likely cause, and definitely did start in the bakery it may have been arsun and started in the bakery by a group of Dutch people because there was a conflict in London at the time
I don’t know about movies about the fire but there is a documentary about it and also a tv series about it not sure what the documentary is called but the series is called ‘The Great Fire’ and was aired in 2013/2014 one of those two
(Sung as a round)
O/' London's burning, London's burning. Fetch the engines, fetch the engines. Fire fire, Fire Fire! Pour on water, pour on water. Pour on water, o/'
Or as we used to sing
'School is burning (x2]
Let it burn (x2)
Fire , Fire ! (X2)
Pour on petrol....etc'
GREAT NEWS MAGIC MONDAY WOOHOO. Sorry for the shouting but it is exciting news albeit a brief return. Love, hugs and prayers from Sussex, UK PS Regarding the names it is true people were named like this and I believe it was still going on in the Victorian Era.
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Although thatch roofs were banned wooden shingle roof tiles werent also these would be tarred to make them waterproof along with the buildings timbers very inflamable. Narrow streets as described in the intoduction can cause an up draught effect like a blast furnace (see the famous firestorms of WW2)
i once watched a documentary saying it was the dutch setting a fire ball into the bakery.
Hey, I think you guys would really enjoy reacting to Rick Steve’s west England. :)
That takes me back to when I was at school more than 50 years ago and the history lessons we had, I sometimes wish I'd listened more and done my homework properly instead of rushing it so I could go out to play football, a very interesting way to get a history story across, the only lessons I didn't like were geography and physics, thanks for posting this
the last thing ide think about is saving my wine and cheese just getting out and being safe
I think that some people also stole the placks of other people houses to say that they were insured and not to have their home burnt down
Haha about the rain, it is never there when you need it
The diarist Samuel Pepys stayed in London in order to write about the fire; his account is remarkable (as is his diary, which spans the years 1660 to 1669)
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but one thing that wasn't brought up in the video that might give you some insight into the character of the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Bludworth. He was so afraid of ordering the firebreaks that first morning that he dismissed the fire as being so weak that "A woman might p*ss it out", before going back to bed.
The Monument to the Great Fire of London that she was next to was built by Sir Christopher Wren as well.
There is a feature of it that not many people know about. The interior has a staircase to the viewing platform that runs around the outside of it.
However, at the core of it is a long early form of telescope that ends at the interior base of the column where she was standing, which can be accessed by a door.
Wren and his friend Robert Hooke the now famous scientist and fellow member of the newly founded Royal Society, which is still around today, regularly spent the night studying the stars.
For anyone interested there`s a fantastically interesting documentary ( available here in YT ) called `The Flying Dutchman,` a ghost ship. In it is a reference to The Great Fire of London - and how us English blamed it on the Dutch with whom we have a long and at times belligerent relationship, those tims now thankfully by and large over. Oh - I hear the Dutch mentioned in this video.
Samuel Pepys watched the fire from the tower of the church of All Hallows by the Tower with Admiral Penn whose son William was baptized there in 1644. He went on to found Pennsylvania.
It's a myth that fire brigades would drive off as the fire could spread to their own customers if left. Several different brigades would turn up at the same time and one would take over if it was their customer and then the others might drive off. But they wouldn't leave it to burn.
24:47 they wouldn't drive off and leave the house to burn. Tom Scott covered this - ua-cam.com/video/Wif1EAgEQKI/v-deo.html
Yes, it's true that there is a lot of debate about where the fire started and if it was actually arson! Also, the fire didn't end the plague!
The whole fire making the plague go away is a very popular myth but its completely untrue ♥
I’m new here , loving your channel ❤ and literally watched most of your videos over the last few days 😂. I think you would really love to see the fireworks for New Year’s Eve in London 2023 . this year they did a beautiful tribute to the queen and iv heard you say on a few videos you love fireworks 😊Hello from London 👋🏻xx
Loose flour is very inflammable, very! It only takes a spark, maybe when the ashes from the the ovens were raked out one smouldering fragment lingered........?
Over here on itvx The great fire is an excellent series
Extreme examples of what happens in 'wooden cities' were Japanese cities attacked with incendiaries in WWII; much bigger than 17th century London. The fires became so fierce that oxygen was sucked in from the surrounding area to create a firestorm.
As is said it doesn't matter what tries to destroy London, it rebuilds itself bigger and stronger. It is like a undefeatable beast.
You get a good idea atleast seeing this. The best documentary on here is "National Geographic Great Fire of London The Untold Story" as they put the effort and money into the documentary with reenactment bits to . 45 minutes though as its a proper documentary with several historians talking about it
Pepys was rather more scathing in his initial assessment of the fire, than the presenter lets on. He remarks in his diary that " A man could pee on the fire and put it out!" (I'm paraphrasing, he wasn't FB friendly in his terminology..)
Hi..have you seen the video of Bridgewater caravial..it is one of the largest in Europe...:)
Natasha and Debbie - If you haven't done so, there is an excellent tour of Westminster Abbey. ua-cam.com/video/jxCA3wPK8l8/v-deo.html
When the overhanging stories existed, people often emptied chamber pots from the windows into the street with a shout...."Look out below"...hence the term "loo" for bathroom.
Hard life those times
Excuse me Ladies, I messed up. The nursery rhyme is written on white plaques with black writing.
Great girlies. This was one subject in history at school that we did learn about. The monument at the end has a golden ball of fire on top and stands I think were the fire started ( anyone correct me if I'm wrong) . Again girlies you pulled it out the bag. See you tomorrow xx
The monument on the site of pudding lane is as tall as the lane was long. If you can get inside you can climb the stairs to the top and look out over the city.
Girlies?? They're grown ass women!
Knowing what happened in the Great Fire Of London I'm guessing it must of been a strong influence on how the American Colonies planned their towns so they wouldn't suffer the same fate as London. As usual your video reactions are both fun and awesome and I have a suggestion for another historic moment featuring the number 66 which I think you'll find fascinating, it's the Norman conquest of England in 1066 by William The Conquerer. Love you ladies and your channel so I wish you a happy Sunday☺️
1966, England won the world cup.
@@neilgayleard3842 Indeed THE most important date in English history😊⚽
Do children in USA sing the fire of London song? Near the end of the video is show some of the words to the song.
What time is magic Monday
there as been 7 Great fires of London
due to climate change The Lake district isnt getting as much rain as it used to in the past, especially in the Summer in the last 5 years
Apparently it didn't wipe out the plague. That year
The thing about it always raining in England is just rubbish! The west and the north of the UK are 'damper', especially if you look at the 'Lake District' or the Scottish Highlands but my wife is always complaining we don't have enough rain around East Anglia compared to what she was used to in Germany. When it comes to fire insurance, take a look at 'The Gangs of New York', something similar is potrayed in that.
The bit about ignoring plaques (fire-marks) from other companies amd leaving buildings to burn is not correct - although it is still a commonly held idea. Until recently even the London Fire Brigade Museum had it on its website. Tom Scott had even done a video on fire-marks and recently did a "I was wrong (and so was everyone)" update video - whch gives a bit more detail on what might have been the real practice. The London Fire Brigade Museum have also updated their website in the meantime. BTW the Fire Brigade Museum pages have quite a lot of detail on the Great Fire.
Nicholas Barbon was the eldest son of Praise-God Barebone (or Barbon),
London bridge is falling down my fair lady
The bit about the fire brigades leaving you to it if you weren't insured has pretty much been proven a myth. It's just lots of people still believe it and it does make for an interesting story. But honestly it doesn't make sense for a number of reasons, One of which is while the house thats on fire may not have insurance, Plenty of the neighbours will, The fire brigades of the time wouldn't fare very well at protecting their clients if they waited for those buildings to catch fire before doing anything lol.. 👍
That guy's really long, ridiculous name is one of those wacky Puritan things. His father was named Praise God, and his uncle was named Fear God. Puritans were strange people, and they're the reason why the US has so many bizarre sexual hangups. The Protestants brought them from Europe when they moved here to settle and create the colonies.
Are we having a pudding? Parmesan cheese is worth dying for ?
did you watch fireworks at london 2023 new year eve
Interesting point, a wedge of Parmesan was, quite literally, worth it's weight in gold at the time
Worth every penny!
Still used as a form of unofficial currency in some parts of Italy today. "What did that car cost?" "Oh 5 wheels of 4 year aged Parmigiano."
Absolutely right
So were Pineapples, only people akin to Royalty could afford one. They were so revered that wealthy people would " rent one " for a dinner party, just to grace the Table, never to be Eaten. Pineapple fronds can still be seen today as part of the decoration on the ornate Railings that you see around very old buildings.
The reason Samuel Pepys has a Blue Plaque, is because his diary is one of the only written daily records of the Great Fire of London and life in the 1660s etc. His Diary is a classic read for students here
Definitely a good read for the post-Civil-War tensions going on in London. People forget this was a very politically charged time and the King's reign hung by a thread.
The Diary runs to thousands of pages and it's hard, or expensive, to get hold of a complete and uncensored copy. If you download a supposedly "complete" free version from the Internet it's, in fact, a Victorian edition, and in the very first paragraph some words are blanked out in which Pepys mentioned that his wife had her period.
@@AlejandroPRGH What people would be after is the Latham & Matthews set of Diaries printed/published from 1970 to about 1983, 11 books (9 books covering the diary years and two books that are reference books). They are as near to the original volumes as can be got by ordinary people. I was lucky enough to purchase a whole set which was well over £100. It was well worth the money. The part that covers the fire is amazing, especially if you watch youtube videos explaining major fires and the noise they make, you sense what the Great Fire of London must have been like. Pepys writes on the evening of the first day of the fire how he and his wife watched the fire from an alehouse on the south side of the river "We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. The churches, houses, and all on fire and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruins". The fire had a bow of flame that was a mile high?
www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/09/02/
Just found out that it rains almost 3 times as much in Cincinnati as it does in London, I’m not totally surprised, the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen was in Indiana, but what we do get is light drizzle a bit more often
King Charles and his brother not only helped organise putting out the fire they both actually participated in manually pouring buckets of water on to the fire.
Hi ladies, you may be interested to know that when the new Globe Theatre was being built in London about 40 years ago, they had to get a special dispensation to construct it as it was to be a timber structure with a thatched roof which had to be treated with a fire suppressant.
When I went to the Museum of London's Fire! Fire! Exhibition, they said the death toll from the Fire was 6 or 7, but the following winter was absolutely bleak, and the death toll among those who were made homeless was well into the many thousands.
My mind immediately goes to the children. Their poor unfortunate young lives were probably already difficult as life was for everybody alive in those day apart from royalty. But they lost their homes, and then were left to freeze to death or die from whatever it was the killed them. And it wouldn’t have been painless because painkillers basically didn’t exist back then. And opium was rare/expensive. I’m glad I wasn’t alive and living in London during the aftermath. I’d have ended up with a house full of displaced children and would’ve probably bankrupted myself to keep them alive. That’s what I’m like. Couldn’t give a frig about adults because they don’t give a frig about me! But children? I couldn’t not help them!
The death toll was definitely higher than they reckoned.
London is very dry in relation to the West of the country. It even has less rain than Rome which has a much warmer climate. It is a myth that it rains all the time in the UK. We do get plenty of rain, especially in winter, but we also get some prolonged periods without any rain at all. Last summer was particularly dry and much hotter than normal. They are talking about building extra reservoirs outside London due to water shortages in summer.
Hi girls, just looked up Great Fire of London Drama, it was on ITV in 2014 and starred Tom Bradby, hope this helps you find it. I watched it and it was very good.
I remember reading a theory about how the fire may have started, under certain conditions flour particles suspended in the air and around the bakery can become explosive and may have combusted when they came into contact with a lit candle or a still burning ember in the oven.
That is true. It was also a real risk in rope 'factories' where the very fine, organic particles from the rope-making process would build up gradually on rafters etc and could explode into flames from a single spark.
The whole fire insurance and them not bothering if you weren't insured thing turns out to have been a myth, Tom Scott did a video on it recently "I was wrong (and so was everyone)"
We have just had a week with no rain. In the summer in my part of England we may get six or more weeks without rain. It varies from year to year. We have had droughts and water rationing. Large grass fires in the countryside etc. This was a problem when we had steam trains as embankment grass fires were put out by staff and sometimes passengers alike.
The ferry men that were at the time taking people across the river for a small fee during the great fire actually hiked up there prices because they could see the panic rush in people wanting to get away.
Thx once again for an informative video and your entertaining reaction thereto. Logic suggests your next historical video might me on the Black Death in Britain, or maybe throughout Europe. A story to note might be that of the village of Eyam. Btw, a common misconception about London is that it rains a lot. In fact, in an average September it only rains 1mm or more on six days, which is less than in New York.
PS: Sorry about your cough! However, as my 10-yr old grandson said to me after I had a coughing spell whilst on Skype with him, "Don't worry, Gramps. It's not the cough which carries you off; it's the coffin they carry you off in!" 🙄🤭
Yeah thatd be ideal do next. Biographics has a good video up on it. Most others on here are either way too long or way too short to react to
I read a book on the story of Eyam. There is also a history program on it.
I live near Eyam and have visited it many times. A very tragic story but also shows the strength of the human spirit to protect others.
Don’t take any notice of divs who are nasty you’re great to watch
Hi Natasha and Debbie! The end of that vdeo, about early fire brigades letting uninsured buildings burn is not strictly true and is a bit more complex. Tom Scott recently did a video entitled 'I was Wrong (and so was Everyone Else)' if you want to check it out further.
There's also an article refuting it on the London Fire Services website
I watched that before Christmas. Good stuff.
Recent investigation indicates that the fire began in the next road to Pudding Lane. How the fire started is now impossible to state, however the probability is it was from a poorly tended open fire, a candle that fell over, a problem with oil lamp. You can never completely rule out arson either. As here is no physical evidence remaining we will never know. Thatched rooves were widely used in rural areas and posed too much risk in areas of dense population. Closely packed wooden buildings and the dry summer meant that conditions were ideal to propagate fire.
As another comment points out, Parmesan Cheese was incredibly expensive at that time. Although Pepys was quite wealthy, he was a civilian administrator at the Admiralty, he couldn't afford to lose such a valuable commodity.
Bear in mind that the ability to fight fires in the 1660s was very rudimentary. Parishes provided their pump if you were lucky, but this had to be fed with water by hand (bucket chain) from a well or stream. it had to be positioned very close to the seat of the fire, there were no hoses. This meant that they were not at all efficient at fire fighting. Better than nothing, but only just.
Stone with crack and explode when subjected to sufficiently high temperatures. Mediaeval churches although predominantly stone did contain a lot of timber, particularly in the rooves. Witness the recent fire at Notre Damme a couple of years ago. Bear in mind that ANYTHING will burn if you make it sufficiently hot.
Do not trust the casualty figures. They would only indicate the members of the higher strata of the population. The number of common folk will never be known because it would not have been sufficiently important to the authorities to record it. also the plague was still rampant, the fire is thought to have contributed to it's demise in the city, though obviously not elsewhere though it was probably declining naturally by then.
N.B. In the previous decade there had been a war with the Dutch over maritime trade. A Dutch fleet had sailed up the Thames and destroyed many vessels of the Navy at Chatham. The problems were relatively short lived and relations with the Dutch have historically been pretty good.
That was Barbon's real name. he was probably of a family of enthusiastic puritans (like your own founding Fathers) and given a name to reflect their faith.
Insurance fire brigades were notoriously unreliable and never had a good reputation. The fire marks are still visible on some old buildings around the country and are highly prized by collectors.
The Ancient Romans had a municipal fire brigade that was better trained and equipped than anyone anywhere by this time and it was not until 1826 in Edinburgh (in response to a massive fire) that a municipal full time fire brigade was established by a Naval Lt, James Braidwood who was an expert on ship board fire fighting. He was subsequently poached by London and supervised the fire that wrecked the Houses of Parliament and died at a warehouse fire in 1847.
As the result of the fire in London it was decided that better provisions were required and the Superintendent of Fire from Amsterdam, Jan Van Der Huyden was brought in. He introduced innovations like the delivery hose (leather with metal rivets) and a crude water main fashioned from hollowed logs.
I know some of these obscure facts because I was a fireman for thirty years and I like history.
Great video, I love learning about history. We have such an interesting history in the UK xx
Don't forget that the wines and cheese would be IMMENSELY expensive back then. The were REAL luxury goods. You could not just nip down to your local supermarket and pick up a bit of Parmesan.
In WW2 St Paul's Cathedral only survived burning down due to the brilliant work of civilians tackling the incendiary bombs landing on the roof. There's great film footage taken from the roof of the cathedral that night showing the fires below totally surrounding it in a UA-cam video titled LONDON FIRE BRIGADE DURING BATTLE OF BRITAIN MOVIE 28232A - almost looks like The Great Fire 1940 - the sequel.
great video yet again ladies, so tragic . i learned a lot of the London history by visiting London dungeons with my high school is 2003 , that was creepy and i ran into a mirror and apologized to my reflection because it was dark.
Yup. That’s what a Canadian would do too. Apologize!
The best precis of the great Pepys diary and a marvellous account of his amazing life is the biography by Claire Tomalin "The Unequalled Self". It was during the time that Pepys was keeping his diary that the monachy was restored. Britain - London in particular - was in enormous political turmoil, naturally, and Pepys was at the heart of the action.
This, the fire and the plague - Pepys lived in momentous times. Imagine living in Berlin at the time of the fall of Communism, the breaking down of the Berlin Wall and then throw in Covid and the destruction of Berlin by the Russians in 1945.
Although he was not an MP - and to general astonishment these days was never knighted - he spent much time at the House of Parliament - Commons and Lords - getting the inside track on what was happening. He himself had a very senior civil service job, Secretary to The Navy Board. He answered to The Duke of York. In those days the Duke of York [the younger brother of the monarch] was the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces [Army and Royal Navy].
There is a hilarious passage in The Diary where Pepys is one of a group attending the King and his Queen, the Portugese Catherine of Braganza. Suffice to say that this passage was one that did not make it into the very much edited Victorian edition of The Diary. Sam was a very naughty fellow and rightly got a lot of stick from his wife.
Even today, the TV historian/presenter Lucy Worsley went bright pink when the person explaining the event to her recounted this detail.
Ladies! Of all the stereotypes that Americans have about Britain, I find the one about rain the most annoying!!!!!! (Natasha falls foul of this one here) How about a reaction video about rain in Britain. I'll guarantee it's NOT how you think it is!!!!
PS love your stuff
It's a myth that the UK is always raining. We are known to have long periods of dry weather, not necessarily hot but just dry, like last year where we were warned that if we don't get enough rainfall over this winter we could experience a drought later this year...so no it doesn't rain all the time 😁
Sorry..second comment.
The Italian cheese woukd have been worth a lot of money.
At this time spices and various commodities were as precious as gold almost.
I think bbc iplayer or you tube has a very good drama documentary about it.
Guys you scared me at the beginning.
Idk what it is. But ot feels like your really here in my room inside my tv but pretending your not. Idk why it feels like that. Maybe your just really good at presenting in a way that feels personal.
But when u started stairing at me like that. I was convinced you were about to walk out my screen and start saying Somthing to me or something. Idk were u judging me for drinking diet fantaor having messy hear?
XD, I just staired back confused and was gonna wave at ya.
Idk what it is, just this bizarre feeling. You guys are magic
The UA-camr J Draper is amazing. You should check out her video on Britain and the Slave Trade.
Need to say London isnt rainy....the UK doesnt rain all the time. The video u watched of London Mega City explained that i think. It is irritating .....it really isnt rainy all the time....honestly. 🤣 and i havent seen oroper fog for years