Little evidence of Baynard’s Castle survives. A blue plaque, street name, multi-storey car park & an exceptionally ugly office building called Baynard House. Palace particularly associated with House of York, with Richard III proclaimed king there 1483 #baynardscastle #richardiii #greatfireoflondon
I had to pretty much climb in a flower bed to find the plaque commemorating Baynard’s Castle in London, close to its site near the Thames. The palace was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 #baynardscastle #londoncastle #greatfire #greatfireoflondon
Looking forward to playing for Colchester #EarlyMusic on 1 March.
The King's Delight: #Music, words & #song from #Restoration Britain.
Do join us!
#earlymodern #charlesii #17thCentury #plague #greatfireoflondon #earlymusicensemble
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London Bridge - 28/10/2025: #12/16 Monument Square
#withmycamera #streetphotography #photosbyrjt #londonbridge #thethames #londonsriver #nighttime #nightphotograpphy #themonumnet #greatfireoflondon
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1697, #StPaulsCathedral in #London was consecrated. The #gothic original was largely wrecked in the #GreatFireOfLondon in 1666. The new one, to a design by #ChristopherWren, was finally completed in 1710, and was the city's tallest structure until 1963.
Today, I climbed the #Monument. 311 steps up (& 311 back down too!). Only courtesy of my daughter I didn’t just climb it once but twice!!1244 steps!! The view is worth it. It is said if you lie it down it points to where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. #GreatFireOfLondon #London #History
Do you know of the #GreatFireOfLondon? #London has a monument for that, even though some anti-minority (including against #LGBT) lessons are still not learned.
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A huge thank you to Churchwarden Brian for the excellent talk last night about some of the memorials and inscriptions at St Olave Hart Street and to Colin and our wonderful choir for the glorious service of Choral Evensong beforehand.
#samuelpepys #squaremilechurches #greatfireoflondon
A display table with copies of my book, with a fire extinguisher on the wall to the side
Loving this safety-conscious display in Waterstones Tunbridge Wells, via @adamchapman.bsky.social - fire extinguisher at the ready for when you're reading the chapter on the Great Fire of London... 👏🔥❤️
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
#history #book #new #GreatFireOfLondon #Dryden #AnnusMirabilis
On this day in 1666, the Great Fire of London came to an end after four relentless days. An AI-generated look at what happened.
#History #OnThisDay #GreatFireOfLondon
How would modern Londoners react to 80% of their city burning down today?
How would they communicate in the chaos their confusion, suspicion and grief?
This week marks the 359th anniversary of the ‘Great Fire of London’. 🧵 👇
#GreatFireOfLondon #History
#OnThisDay in 1666, the #GreatFireofLondon broke out in Thomas Farrinor's house on Pudding Lane when the king's baker carelessly let some embers smoldering in his oven; the medieval city of oak timbers was consumed in flames that engulfed 13,000 houses...
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Sept 2, 1666: The Great Fire of London began, burning for 4 days & reshaping the city. 🔥🏙️ From ashes came new beginnings and urban reform.
#GreatFireOfLondon #HistoryInFlames #CityReborn #SeptemberHistory 🏗️
A single spark in a Pudding Lane bakery ignited the Great Fire of London, wiping out 13,000 homes in 1666. 🔥 #RandomFact #DailyFact #History #GreatFireOfLondon #HistoricalEvents
On This Day (02 Sep) in 1666, an accidental fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane, in the east of the city of London, spreading throughout the city, causing mass devastation. The blaze, which burned for 4 days, was known as 'The Great Fire of London'. #London #greatfireoflondon #history
On this day in 1666 the Great Fire of London started.
The fire burned destroyed or damaged hundreds of private and church libraries across the city. Countless books and manuscripts were lost, some estimates but the cost of loss books at £150-200,000!
#OnThisDay #libraries #GreatFireOfLondon
Procession of badgers through grassy terrain with sandy stones. Mountainous blue crags in background. Yellow sky. An odyssey for Welsh badgers 🦡 (Watership Down style) 💔😢
Orange & yellow firey sky in background. Striped Ginger cats leaping from crumbling London buildings in foreground.
Mouse with cloak inside tree hollow. Three rats 🐀 below, one with an eye patch.
Yellow dawn. Brown rabbit in closeup facing out side profile to left.
I love animal centric
stories. Devoured Colin Dann’s books as a child & enjoyed DK Smith’s stories too. Here are some more favourites 🎭#Historical #GreatFireofLondon #Emotional 🐇@carnegiemedals.bsky.social ☂️🐭 #WW2 is great too. Silverwing is now out as a GN. 🦇❤️📚#bookbloggers
Standing tall in the heart of London, The Monument commemorates the Great Fire of 1666, a symbol of resilience and rebirth. 🔥
#TheMonument #LondonHistory #GreatFireOfLondon #CityViews #HistoricLondon #LondonArchitecture #ExploreLondon #HiddenGems #TravelUK
The only Easter Pepys this Old Coot can stomach. Original Digital Art. #peep #peeps #easterpeeps #marshmallowpeeps #pepys #diary #diarist #history #england #Brittan #britishisles #historian #london #greatfire #greatfireoflondon #plague #blackplague #bubonicplague #londonplague
Sunday morning read! As it is not the anniversary of the Great Fire of London, I decided to write about it, but not about the usual stuff we hear all the time...
#London #Fire #History #GreatFireofLondon #CityofLondon
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While Etienne Belland, royal fireworks maker and part of my detective team in 1666, escaped being charged with starting the Great Fire of London, another young Frenchman did not. A scapegoat was needed . . .
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#historicalmystery #authorblog #greatfireoflondon
An antique calendar: wood & brass with one month shown.
2025-26 bookings are OPEN!
Book now to secure your dates for our in-person workshops.
#Egyptian #Greek #Roman #Viking #Saxon #Castles #Tudor #Victorian #FlorenceNightingale #GreatFireofLondon #Pirates #Toys #Seaside #1940s #Coronation
#EduSky #PrimaryHistory
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Have you met the other Me? My most recent iteration writes mystery with some very twisty history. Scan below and check out Evie-Me. #historicalmystery #greatfireoflondon
Portrait of Pepys - man with long dark curly hair, wearing a silky jacket, holding a piece of paper with music written on. By John Hayls - Walthamstow Weekender (file), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=210769
Happy Birthday to #SamuelPepys: civil servant, MP, diary writer & cheese burier, born #OTD 1633!
We have both in-person & virtual workshops to immerse your pupils in hands-on learning about #GreatFireOfLondon.
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#EduSkyUK #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryHistory
You know you're a history junkie when you keep thinking of the #GreatFireOfLondon of 1666 in relation to the poor folk suffering amidst the Great Fire of Los Angeles. The post-plague, then fire coincidence is haunting. I adore history, but this is a tough analogy as I think of friends/family.
"Fire in London".
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#poem #poetry #skypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #greatfireoflondon #grenfelltower #justeliterary
23rd Feb 1633 - birth of Samuel Pepys, whose diary will be such an important record of the disaster that will strike London 33 years later. Taverner, Mr Wilkins, needs your pupils help as London rebuilds. #GreatFireofLondon
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List of London Churches, in Stow's Survey of London 1598, heavily annotated by an 18thC owner, detailing their fate in the Great Fire of 1666.
#rarebooks #history #16thcentury #London #earlymodern #Elizabethan #Churches #GreatFireofLondon #bookauction bit.ly/3Zk2fTQ
#OnThisDay in 1666, the #GreatFireOfLondon smoldered to its destructive close after destroying 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches & leaving over 70,000 #homeless in #London. Charles II commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build a new St. Paul's Cathedral to replace the old one destroyed in the fire... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
#OnThisDay in 1666, the #GreatFireOfLondon smoldered to its destructive close after destroying 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches & leaving over 70,000 #homeless in #London...
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