ASIN: B00OYVY7BY
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 44
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the fire written by survivors and government officials*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents “[A] wooden, northern, and inartificial congestion of Houses." – John Evelyn’s description of London before the fire“So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw, and that unless His Majesty did command houses to be pulled down nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way." – Samuel PepysIn the 17th century, the people of London could boast that they had developed some of the most advanced firefighting technology and methods in the world, including the use of primitive fire engines. There were even vendors of such machines who advertised in papers of ...
