American Reacts to the Great Fire of London

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As an American I don't know much about the history of London. Today I am very interested to learn about the famous fire of London and what exactly happened. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[@cpmahon]

To add a bit more context the total population of England in 1666, was approximately 5 million people. That means more than 1 in 50 of the entire population became homeless virtually overnight.

[@dee2251]

@@AirstripOne-nd4duour population is around 70 million, and that’s just the legals. 🤔After WW2 we had a population of around 35 million. Can you please qualify your statement?

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

@@dee2251racist.

[@claregale9011]

After the Great fire they was no longer allowed to build wooden structures and that's why you see so many stone or brick buildings in the u.k . the Tower of London has one of few preserved Tudor residents left as the stone structure of the Tower of london protected it . 😊

[@ollielowe7534]

Pepys, the most famous diarist in the English language! Wrote his diaries in a shorthand code, which was not deciphered for several hundred years. Take a look.

[@annedunne4526]

Pepys, the man who described the fire wrote a diary which described the everyday life of the 17th century and was invaluable as a source on cultural, political, economic and social norms of the time.

[@rogerwitte]

Pepys was one of the first civil servants in the UK and rose from relatively humble origins to become first Lord of the Admiralty. His innovations include the first UK factory (to make rope for the navy) and standardised sizes for nails (to make ship repair cheaper and easier).

[@KC-gy5xw]

I believe he was happy his cheese survived being buried?

[@carolineskipper6976]

@@KC-gy5xw The cheese thing sounds ridiculous to us today, with our modern supply lines across the world, but Pepys cheese was a whole Parmesan, which would have been imported from Italy, and would have been an expensive luxury item. He had sent his wife out of London with most of their valuables and furniture....it's not like he prioritised the cheese over more important stuff.

[@johndaarteest]

@@KC-gy5xw I know it sounds a bit Emmental for him to worry so much but as carolineskipper says here, cheeses were expensive. I've just looked at prices for a whole wheel of parmisan today: an 80lb wheel costs £1, 450. And that's with ease of modern travel etc. Imagine what it was like 350 plus years ago.

[@tonytiger76ffs34]

THERES a famous quote of 'a woman could piss on this fire and put it out'

[@Penddraig7]

Well you clearly didn’t watch the video

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

18:15 'I doubted this guy at first, because of his dog' 😂 that cracked me up for some reason.

[@ollielowe7534]

I think he means king Charles 11

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Why should you doubt a guy because of a dog?

[@alfresco8442]

The artist of that thumbnail painting didn't do his research. Prominent on the skyline is Christopher Wren's St Pauls...which replaced the old St Pauls , which was burnt to the ground in the fire.

[@carolstringfellow3888]

There is a children’s nursery rhyme/song about the Great Fire of London, it’s called “London’s Burning”, it’s really spooky but beautiful

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

There is an absolutely gripping Documentary ( available here in YT ) called " The Flying Duchman," concerning a ship. The last sighting of which - if I recall well - was when an Australian Naval Vessel during World War II sent a message to port declaring only, " Flying Duchman" afterwhich the vessel and the men aboard it were never seen nor heard of again. During the docu-drama, it regails how the Dutch were once enemies of England and as a result on one ( Saturday ?) night a Fire Ship was sent by the Dutch up the River Thames, coming to lie close to Pudding Lane......embers from the ship, picked up by a strong wind that night took the flames ashore. `Can`t remember much about the Doc-Drama, but it is filled with interesting possibilites.... It might be true. It might be us English blaming all of our woes on foreigners ( particulalry Europeans ), as we still do today.

[@peterturner369]

They got so used to fight in the wooden houses they stop taking notice of fires until the big one

[@nolasyeila6261]

It would have been interesting to compare to the Great Fire of Chicago.

[@angeladormer6659]

Tyler, please why don't you listen a bit before you start dissecting. Fire brigade? America was still ruled by the Indigenous 1st Nations and had a few Puritans starting to bring a new society. It started in the baker's in Pudding Lane. Samuel Pepys was the greatest diarist of his time in England, giving amazing insight into Renaissant England under Charles II. ITV made a dramatised version of The Great Fire of London, which really gives you an idea of what it was like, worth a look. The memorial erected is still on the site of Pudding Lane. Now we build homes of bricks and mortar which are strong. Most American homes are still timber framed with no footings.❤❤❤👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹

[@johndavidbaldwin3075]

Samuel Pepys, the diarist was Secretary to the Navy and was instrumental in creating the British Navy as a strong organisation.

[@cenedra2143]

I stood on the spot the bakery used to be. There is a monument close by and some benches with the lyrics of the poem on. The spot is not on Pudding Lane anymore but Pudding Lane is still there :)

[@yvonnestarr8933]

The blonde woman holding the narrating at the beginning of the film 1.21 is standing in front of The Monument.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

😢 It's actually thought to be a complete myth that only six people died in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Instead, it is considered to have created such intense heat that not only were the wooden structures exploding from the gunpowder used to create firebreaks to halt the progress of the fire, but the fure itself creating literal firestorms which consumed everything within reach. Including bodies, being acted upon much as the flames of a crematorium would burn today. It removed old run-down buildings as well as newer ones, cleaned out the poorest section of the city, including the people thought of by the King and Councilmen as "the rabble" and made it easier to rebuild after the fire without having to provide aid for the poorer folks who were already looked down upon. City records omit numbers of people to whom the city might pay compensation, and most people who could or who had to, moved out of the city to the surrounding countrysides, such as in Kent, Hertfordshire, Sussex & Surrey etc, only the richer Londoners (as now) being able to rebuild and live within the city boundaries. New buildings were mistly designed and built by Christopher Wren, (so many, that rumours were that in order to gain the vast rebuilding work, he started the fire - untrue, of course!) The 2nd vudeo you showed, Tyler, looks like it was made to explain to children about the history of London, including the Great Fire of 1666, so it was imagined it waa better to not upset the children by telling them the truth of how many people - especially poor people - died abd so the "Great Lie" continues to this day and generally the public still believes few were actually victims to the Fire. There are other, better videos, presented by scientists who study fire phenomena and how this fire in oarticukar would have devastated large swathes of the city, leaving only ashes in its wake. The whole thing is much sadder than even you've already thought. Nowadays of course, the buildings are virtually all built in brick and / or stone and buildings within the City are generally better protected with modern technology, sprinkler-systems, smoke alarms, hydrants, CCTV etc etc etc. We have had wildfires in and around the city recently due to intense heat during the Summer byt eventually they were doused and did not lead to the total distruction of former years. Long may London reign.❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💙🇬🇧❤️🖖

[@Rhianalanthula]

I'd say, 6 people REPORTED dead. The rest went unreported. Actual figure, unknown.

[@araptorofnote5938]

Fortunately, real history can only be based on the known facts. The 'thought to be' re-imaginings of 21st century social historians' are essentially, just grant supported virtue signals.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@araptorofnote5938 It's "thought to be" by _me_ because I don't recall the name of the scientist (or his video) to state it as a 'definitive' fact to the comments section.

[@peterturner369]

It started off in a pie shop in the city of London it’s just been suspected some baking flour caught fire in a pic shop

[@Maverick25ish]

I remember learning about this in school. when that dude woke up and looked out his window it was a tiny fire across the city, he thought just A house was on fire, and he went back to bed, then a few hours later when he woke up the fire was litrally outside his window

[@johnm8224]

The total area burnt over 4 days was about 440 acres (about 0.7 square miles / 1.75 sq. km).

[@rogerwitte]

Pudding Lane was (is) a small street. At the time of the fire it was the centre of the bakery trade, and that was what it was named after.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

That's not true about the name, but an EASY mistake to make: FYI - Because the fire started in a 'bakers', people 'assume' that the name was to do with the baking of sweet 'puddings' etc.. But in fact, it refers to offal, sinews and innards of animals - as in the term usage i.e. for 'Black Pudding'. Before it was changed to Pudding Lane (PL from now on to save typing - LOL!), it was called Rother Lane! At the lower end of PL was a dock (or wharf) on the River Thames, called Rothersgate* and at the other, upper end going North it went to Eastcheap Meat Market. PL was used as a 'run-through' by the butcher's and meat sellers to dispose of all the 'waste' (by hand carts, as it was very narrow), directly to boats at the dock, to be disposed of. FUN FACT: Pudding Lane was one of the world's first 'one-way streets'... Designated that because even two hand carts could not pass each other and was long with no 'passing places'. *Rothersgate - from the word 'rothers' that referred to cattle (actually horned animals), especially an ox.

[@thomasllewelynjones5546]

Fun little fact: King Charles II’s brother James Duke of York (future King James II) helped to fight the fire! The King also let some people take shelter in his palace at Whitehall during the fire - although they were mainly foreigners, as some mobs blamed French and Dutch people for starting the fire…

[@NckBrktt]

Fariner - someone who prepares with flour, not the Fariner family. The fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In 17th C there were no electric lights. Hence everybody used candles. You are right, there are no medieval buildings in the USA.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

The baker's family was actually called Fariner.

[@lauradolan4141]

We even have a nursery rhyme for it. Londons burning.

[@evelynwilson1566]

Interesting video😊. I think the maid would have had a cheaper rushlight not a candle but it still had an open flame. Do they know for certain she was the cause? It seems to me that the maid with a candle was always blamed. I guess Pepys lived quite far from the fire and felt he could do nothing.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

You obviously haven't been watching the video properly. It does not blame the girl with the candle, but an ember from the bakery which had not being extinguished properly. The ember set some twigs alight.

[@ianbriers5019]

Insurance we know today started after the Great fire of London. You could take out insurance and insurance people would come and put the fire out. If you weren't insured afraid your house would burn down. And nearly happened again in ww2 It is only stopped by bad weather. When Nazi planes couldn't take off another ride. There is a film of this great event if you want to look it up. My grandfather was there as a aircraft gunner at that point in time. Outside st Paul's cathedral

[@robnewman6101]

Great Plague & Great Fire of London.

[@jenniferhaigh1784]

If youre interested in british (and more widely some older European hisyory ie viking, romans, greeks etc) please give Horrible Histories a watch (BBC) Its a programme aimed at kids but is hilarious and extreamly informative its for the family not just kids. They kings and queens song is particulaly fabulous as all the songs are

[@carolineskipper6976]

'Pudding' should be 'Pudding Lane', so called because it was an area where Bakers lived and worked. Street traditionally were often named after the predominant trade carried on in them. London was rebuilt using pretty much the same ground plan. As well as insisting the houses should be made of stone and brick, and n it became illegal to use thatch on the roofs. The Lord Mayor who was so useless at the start had to be overridden by the King, who insisted on the blowing up of houses to make a fire break.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

FYI: The reason it's called Pudding Lane (PL - this will save me writing it all the time - LOL!) is not the obvious one! Because the fire started in a bakers, people easily 'ASSUME' that the name was to do with the baking of sweet 'puddings' etc.. But in fact, it refers to offal, sinews and innards of animals - as in the term usage i.e. for 'Black Pudding'. Before it was changed to PL, it was called Rother Lane! (See Rothersgate below). At the lower end of PL was a dock (or wharf) on the River Thames, called Rothersgate* and at the other, upper end going North it went to Eastcheap Meat Market. PL was used as a 'run-through' by the butcher's and meat sellers to dispose of all the 'waste' (by hand carts, as it was very narrow), directly to boats at the dock, to be disposed of. FUN FACT: Pudding Lane was one of the world's first 'one-way streets'... Designated that because even two hand carts could not pass each other and was long with no 'passing places'. I hope that clarifies a few facts and although the 'Museum of London' has closed it's doors at the London Wall site (after 45 years), it is due to reopen in 2026 at West Smithfield. *Rothersgate - from the word 'rothers' that referred to cattle (actually horned animals), especially an ox.

[@alanmoss3603]

Years ago after walking my girlfriend to her office I took a shortcut back to Cannon Street - down a nasty little concrete alleyway between two drab 1970's office blocks. The road sign at the end said Pudding Lane! I was so disappointed! . BTW .'Pudding' means guts (meat) in Old English!

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

And before it was PL it was called Rother Lane, thus and FYI: Because the fire started in a 'bakers', people 'assume' that the name was to do with the baking of sweet 'puddings' etc.. But in fact, it refers (as you say) to offal, sinews and innards of animals - as in the term usage i.e. for 'Black Pudding'. Before it was changed to Pudding Lane (PL from now on to save typing - LOL!), it was called Rother Lane! At the lower end of PL was a dock (or wharf) on the River Thames, called Rothersgate* and at the other, upper end going North it went to Eastcheap Meat Market. PL was used as a 'run-through' by the butcher's and meat sellers to dispose of all the 'waste' (by hand carts, as it was very narrow), directly to boats at the dock, to be disposed of. FUN FACT: Pudding Lane was one of the world's first 'one-way streets'... Designated that because even two hand carts could not pass each other and was long with no 'passing places'. *Rothersgate - from the word 'rothers' that referred to cattle (actually horned animals), especially an ox.

[@Who.Knew-The.Salt.MustFlow]

Reminds me of the incompetence in 2023 by those apparently in charge during the recent Hawaii fires

[@rosalindhobbs301]

I had a fire next door to me and it’s very frightening

[@traceyandrob13]

I know it a game but a great game that give you to some history of Uk is Assassin Creed Syndicate it set in the Industrial Revolution

[@gamingtonight1526]

He doesn't react, he sort of explains what was already mentioned in the video!

[@andy4194]

React to The Great Plague unless you have done already as that was an alarming event.

[@UnknownUser-rb9pd]

Everyone used naked flames for cooking, heating and lighting back then. Along with non-existent health and safety and fire safe construction standards, fires would have been a daily occurrence back then.

[@TerryTheNewsGirl]

Watch Tom Bradby's "The Great Fire" or if you want to be silly watch "Doctor Who - The Visitation".

[@ElunedLaine]

I believe there were 6 fatalities in The Great Fire. Sadly more people were lost in London in June 2017. YT vid - 'How the Grenfell Tower fire spread' by The Telegraph

[@JohnVDenley]

The mayor sounds like most current maga republican politicians!!

[@Penddraig7]

Jeez, get a life

[@JohnVDenley]

@@Penddraig7 Haha "tell me you're a maga supporter without telling me you are a maga supporter" 😉😂😂😂

[@Penddraig7]

@@JohnVDenley of course you would say that because you’re so obsessed with it, triggered by it that you lot bang on about it and turn everything into maga thing, Trump derangement syndrome, get a life, this has got nothing to do with maga republicans, this is British history for a start, nothing to do with America, if you want to whine like a baby about maga republicans, go do it somewhere relevant, go find an echo chamber to circle jerk in, seriously, it’s getting F’n old now, it’s also extremely hypocritical because was it not the Democrats etc who were trying to play down the “summer of love” as just peaceful protests as cities were burning across America, businesses being raided and ransacked, Billions of dollars of damage, numerous people being killed in cold blood. So like I said, get a life, not everything is about American politics, but you just can’t help yourself, it consumes your life, I bet it’s all you bloody talk about, bloody whinge whinge whinge like a broken bloody record, you need mental help or something, it’s not normal to be so obsessive about something in such an irrational manner

[@Beth-wl8by]

I find it rather ridiculous that American schools don't teach anything other than American history, considering the majority of you are European 🙄

[@johndevlin2058]

Have you seen, London can take it, from ww2

[@kathryndunn9142]

I didnt realize it was burning for 5 days i knew it started at the bakery so whats he saying women piss alot 😂

[@AnnThorpe-d3w]

Why don't you listen before reacting!

[@reluctantheist5224]

He does , there are countless examples of him doing just that even in this video. Why don't you go somewhere else more conducive to your temperament.

[@lillired857]

the phoney london accent in that second one!! ugh!

[@alananderson5731]

Please stop talking

[@cireenasimcox1081]

In the beginning, when it showed the maid carrying her candle to bed you had a little fit which made me giggle: "Oh no! She has a lighted candle!!" Give it a little think: electricity was centuries into the future & gas wasn't yet discovered as a source of light. EVERYbody - from the lowest to the highest - used candles. What else could they use? There were many places candles were used right into the 20thC. Sadly, because of contemporary ideas about royalty, what was left out was that the King, Charles II (Not "Charles Eye Eye"😂 as the narrator said!🤣) rather than sitting in his palace as shown in the cartoon , was in the thick of it, with his brother - they spent 30 hours non-stop at the scene, helping - and taking part in - making chains for water buckets. It was Charles who insisted on making fire breaks by pulling down buildings. It was Charles who was behind all the strategies imposed to quell the fire. (Yeah, as stated, the Mayor was reluctant to take such steps with the wealthy.) And it was Charles who, with Wren, designed the "new" London which rose from the ashes. It's impossible for historians to piece together the train of events of the Fire without referencing Charles. Whereas it would seem that Wikis and pop-history just cross him out of the picture. Which of course backs up the idea of Monarchy being indolent, non-caring, cut off from the common people and only caring for their own well-being.

[@ShellieWatkins-pr5wd]

You should look at the topic of the plague across Europe & the Uk.

[@lisadowsett6836]

What they didn't tell you was, that King Charles II and his brother James, actually took to the streets themselves to help the people by rolling up their sleeves and throwing buckets of water on the buidings. My ancestor George Peowry was one of the glaziers that installed the windows in the new building of St Pauls for Sir Christopher Wren.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

How wonderful to have such an ancestor. 😊

[@Paul-hl8yg]

Just imagine, George may have been fitting a window into place & Wren visited, to see how his masterpiece is coming along. 'Good work George' says Wren.. 'Thank you master Wren' the reply. Then Wren points up at one part of the window & says.. 'You missedeth a bitteth dear man' 😆👍🇬🇧

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@@Paul-hl8yg 🤣🤣

[@angelabushby1891]

Nobody has mentioned the King helped trying to put the fire out

[@Archris17]

Okay I'm British and I never knew that. Helped how? I mean obviously at the end he ordered the army sappers in to create firebreaks, but now I'm imagining some poor sod in a bucket chain turning and suddenly realizing the man he's handing it to is _King Charles_ of all people! xD

[@hayzeebloke]

Pudding lane. A small street.

[@danielferguson3784]

In those days all sources of ignition in the wooden houses had by law to be extinguish at curfew, because of the danger of fire. The Farriners were bakers, with large ovens to bake bread for the neighbourhood. There was a large water tower in the middle of the City, but this was near the start of the fire, so was destroyed before anything could be done. When the Mayor was first told about the fire, he looked out the window & said "that's nothing, a woman could piss it out". He later fled the City. Many livelihoods were lost, because the goods of hundreds of merchants from all over the country stored their yearly products within the city, & many of these, cloth, wines, cereal, timber etc, were all highly flammable.

[@Diablo_Himself]

Fun fact: The Mayor of London at the time was told of the fire, said "some prostitute will probably piss it out", and went back to sleep. Apparently this is true.

[@malcolmhumphries3284]

The original video is about 3 hours long. The St Paul's portion mentioned the booksellers stored their stock in the building, but there was scaffolding outside, and this caught fire resulting in the roof lead melting and running along the street to the river.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

The first video you were watching was part of a three hour documentary shown over three nights on TV. Well worth trying to find more of it.

[@clinging54321]

Why does the picture show the current St Paul's not the one that was destroyed?

[@the_patient85]

One tree can make a thousand matches…one match can burn a thousand trees

[@ethancantwell8549]

The fire I believe also outlawed thatch roofs. The only building in London still allowed to have a thatch roof is Shakespeare's globe theatre.

[@clinging54321]

The original Globe Theatre burned down when wadding from a canon set the thatched roof alight.

[@ethancantwell8549]

@@clinging54321 Yeah but the modern one still has a thatch roof.

[@clinging54321]

@@ethancantwell8549 absolutely but that has been treated with fire retardant, and they not allowed to fire canons either, Health & Safety would have an heart attack if they did.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

How did the fire of London start? Well the Doctor was escaping from the Terileptils and their exploding technology kicked the fire off....

[@Tr1k1e]

A small claim to fame for my family was that they owned a cloth works in London on a street now called Thread Needle Street and is where the Bank of England now stands. Samuel Pepys was a customer of my family and was also part of a trust fund set up for my family that still runs today. Although it isn't worth very much now and I believe it all goes to a charity

[@johnhood3172]

This is the reason why we hate building with wood and find American houses of wood strange . JH

[@elizabethadracul120]

Hi Tyler hunni I learnt a lot about the great fire when I was at school back in the day, it was a big part of our history lesson. Today there is a great fire of London walk you can do with the kids which takes the same path the fire took, and you can also walk up the 311 steps to the top of the Monument, which there is a really good view of that part of London, if you make it to the top that is. Which is the length form there to where the fire started. The sad thing is no one really cared about the poor so we don't really know how many actully died. There is only one official record that says that only six people lost their lives, buts that's what was recorded back then. But we do know that the Great Fire almost made 85% of London population homeless. And it took around 50 years to rebuild London as you see it today. On the plus side is did help kill the black plague which was running rampant at the time.

[@solpat1977]

What did you expect the houses to be made of? This the 1600’s.Stone was an expensive material for ordinary people to build their houses in and even the wealthy lived in wooden homes.

[@ScpDrRisha]

I'm a Brit and the great fire of London is still, surprisingly, a topic still spoke of today! Fun fact:The fire of London eliminated the rest of the plague so it did both good and bad! Normally, the fire shouldn't have been that bad but because everything was out of wood back then and it was too late to get water so that's how it started as they never had fire extinguishers back then!

[@saintlyknight3186]

@lynx-th-therian.There are various myths surrounding the Great Fire, so it’s important to identify some facts about the Great Fire of London. One is that it didn’t stop the spread of the plague. Unfortunately, that’s a romantic spin on the truth; the fire only burned about a quarter of urban London, so wouldn’t have removed the plague completely and records show people continued to die from the plague after 1666. All it may have done is kill a lot of the rats and fleas that spread it, and remember the plague was nationwide, not just in London.

[@stephenlee5929]

It did not eliminate the plague, the plague was east of where the fire was. The plague was more or less over by then. The main defence should have been to create a fire break, by tearing down houses, they knew this, but the mayor did not act on it. Fire insurance came about as a result and those insurance companies set up fire brigades.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

Plus the closeness of the shops and houses, especially in the narrow lanes and leaning top floors, meant the fire swept rapidly from building to building.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

It did not stop the plague.

[@sharonsnail2954]

Tyler: If you see a video with KS1 in its title or description (like the second video in this reaction) then it is aimed at children between the ages of 5 and 7. KS stands for Key Stage and is part of the National Curriculum for school education in the UK. If you feel up to it go for KS4, that's for 14 to 16 year olds.

[@debbielough7754]

The irony is that things improved after the fire. The buildings were rebuilt out of safer materials, with the streets made wider, and because of the ban on the overhanging upper stories, there was more light in the street below. Although it's not true that the plague was eradicated (outbreaks continued for some years), with cleaner wider streets, it was easier to control. You should look up the Second Great Fire of London. 1940, during the Blitz. Hitler wanted to raze London to the ground, and some have said to start a firestorm. St Paul's was a key part of that too, with Churchill giving the order to save St Paul's at all cost. There's a famous photo of St Paul's standing proud above the rubble, called 'St Paul's Survives'. (No mean feat, as the dome is built from wood.)

[@MichelleWilliams-ue5dv]

The children’s rhyme I learnt to remember the year it started was. “In sixteen hundred and sixty six, London went up like a pile of sticks!

[@Dasyurid]

The Monument is minor visitor attraction and has a tight spiral staircase inside that takes you up to an outdoor viewing platform around the top. It’s a bit nippy up there in the winter though. The nearest Tube station is, conveniently enough, Monument station on the Circle and District lines.

[@steverpcb]

It was actually built as a telescope !

[@ct5625]

I've always wondered why this story hasn't been turned into a Hollywood disaster movie. It has so much potential. You have the class divides, you have the scale and scope, you have the history, notable figures and interesting little anecdotes from so many different people in society at the time. The fact that King Charles II was directly involved in fighting the fire, the mayor being the upper-class villain, the explosions taking down houses... all you really need is a sympathetic hero and a love interest (Jack Dawson and Rose) and you have a potential blockbuster on your hands.

[@robinhooduk8255]

if you really want your mind blown, you should read the law that parliament enacted just days after the fire of london. which turned every man woman and child (in law) from a man in common law into a "monster" which is a legal term for livestock. now i dont buy into the sovereignty conspiracies anymore, BUT if you read the actual law which is still in effect today, its all there in black and white. you can read it on the parliament website. Cestui Que Vie Act (1666)

[@daveyr7454]

Ohhh, how I wish that you would watch these videos without interrupting every five seconds to repeat what you just heard and saw. Try watching longer spells before commenting Tyler, pleeeeese :)

[@dee2251]

Persuade rich people that tearing down their perfectly good homes to make them homeless to prevent the fire spreading is the challenge Peeps had. Not much has changed.

[@TerryD15]

The family were bakers in Pudding Lane. Interesting fact: the family were called the Fariners and the French word for wheat flour is 'farin', so they would have been named after their craft, like a smith, or fletcher (arrow maker), miller etc. However bad the fire was it's thought that the fire killed off the Black Death (the great plague)

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

But the 'Great Fire' stopping the plague is a myth that has been disproved. The Black Death was already in remission and the areas destroyed by the fire were NOT the areas that the plague was at it's worst. But an interesting thing about Pudding Lane (PL - this will save me writing it all the time - LOL!) is its name! Because the fire started in a bakers, people 'assume' that the name was to do with the baking of sweet 'puddings' etc.. But in fact, it refers to offal, sinews and innards of animals - as in the term usage i.e. for 'Black Pudding'. Before it was changed to PL, it was called Rother Lane! At the lower end of PL was a dock (or wharf) on the River Thames, called Rothersgate* and at the other, upper end going North it went to Eastcheap Meat Market. PL was used as a 'run-through' by the butcher's and meat sellers to dispose of all the 'waste' (by hand carts, as it was very narrow), directly to boats at the dock, to be disposed of. FUN FACT: Pudding Lane was one of the world's first 'one-way streets'... Designated that because even two hand carts could not pass each other and was long with no 'passing places'. *Rothersgate - from the word 'rothers' that referred to cattle (actually horned animals), especially an ox.

[@Lazmanarus]

The plague died down about 6 months before the fire started.

[@nolasyeila6261]

Just a couple of weeks ago I got an SMS from Emergency Services to evacuate due to fire heading my way. Like Samuel Pepys, I headed over the river - but I didn't stop to bury my cheese.

[@peterturner369]

Pudding lane and a lot of the old city of London was burnt and the only way they could stop it was blown some houses making some sort of fire break stop the spread of the fire

[@CorbyTaylor]

It a good documentary but the video your watching has so much of it cut out. I remember the documentary easily being an hour long, it was shown on tv over 3 nights

[@davidstewart6688]

You need to take your finger off the pause button mate!

[@Penddraig7]

It’s called a reaction you muppet! That’s the whole point, to pause and react, if you are so mentally weak that you can’t handle that, go watch the original video, problem solved!

[@rosalindhobbs301]

That’s why we build houses with brick and not wood

[@nickrose83]

I don't think either of these were very good videos about the great fire

[@riverraven7359]

If you are wondering how a stone cathedral burns down, the embers carried on the strong winds and settled in the wooden rafters of the roof , starting the fire from the top and raining burning ashes onto the wooden benches inside. Stuck in the heart of the Great Fire the temperature grew so intense that the water trapped inside the stones of the cathedral began to boil and londoners reported explosions as the stones cracked and blew apart.

[@Mark-1978]

If I remember correctly didn't the cathedral also have some repairs being done which meant it had scaffolding up which also helped the spread of the fire up the walls

[@enemde3025]

PUDDING LANE is the name of the street . Only 6 people were " officially" recorded to have died in the fire. 85% of the population were made homeless. Samuel Pepys never recovered his cheese . Because of the fire, British homes had to be made from bricks/stone from then on. PLAGUE is pronounced PLAYG.

[@steverpcb]

The monument was built as a telescope and has a secret room at the bottom that looks up the hole through the middle of it, and a trap door at the top that uncovers the hole !

[@DavidBarlow-wf7cf]

Funnily as an Australian I know more about the outside world than I do about my own country kudos to my history teachers

[@Denisedale-pm1mm]

The king Charles spaniel was named after king charles

[@robertlisternicholls]

Bear in mind there was no benefit system in those days. It must have been a great struggle to survive following the fire.

[@kathryndunn9142]

Yes definitely

[@dav7444]

The Monument was built near London Bridge as a 'monmument' to the Great fire. If the monument was laid down, it would end up at Pudding Lane. One can climb the stairs of the Monument (inside) to go to the top. There was a plus to the fire, however, as it burnt the old plague houses and helped end the plague.

[@paigemprice]

One lasting effect of the fire is that there are still very few wood buildings, everything is brick, even the houses in the suburbs. Also, fun fact, pudding in Britain means desserts of any kind. You dont order dessert you order pudding

[@chlo.dia765]

the great fire of london is a topic in the national curriculum for year 1, meaning that all 5-6 year olds in the country have to learn about it, hence why the second video was aimed towards this age group

[@XxMissAutumnxX]

This is taught to UK kids in primary school/elementary school/grade school ... but its been so long I'm relearning this again from this video

[@jonathangoll2918]

I beleve the Monument originally had an inscription blaming Roman Catholics for the fire. I'm critical of Roman Catholics at the time, but this was slander. Our great poet of the time, Alexander Pope, a Catholic, makes a sharp comment about this. Sir Christopher built the present, magnificent, St Paul's Cathedral, and rebuilt many of the destroyed churches, whose replacements are now often called "Wren Churches". Many other British cities had great fires, such as the Great Fire of Warwick (1694?). Charles II and his brother behaved well at this time, but did many other things that were wrong.

[@JenniferAllan-be1vf]

The origin of the fire was Pudding LANE. It did, however, finish off the Black Death.

[@sludgiebear]

The 100,000 people who were made homeless would be over 20% of London's population at that time (approaching 500,000). It'd be interesting to know how they were looked after until new houses were built. I imagine having them shack up with other people, giving them benefits like temporary reduced tax rates or something. 🤔

[@davidmahan4160]

Hi Tyler, have you watched a KZbin video called: Visit America without leaving Britain. The JFK Memorial. By Mark Felton. 😊

[@joyparry9354]

King Charles himself actually took over supervision of the way the fire was being tackled after the failure of the Mayor - his best soldiers helped make firebreaks using gunpowder to bring down buildings .... and the king had to be sternly removed from putting himself in danger by getting too involved. He also arranged for food & other supplies to be brought from the countryside for the Londoners made homeless.

[@damonx6109]

I love how Tyler has to preface everything by saying he's "never heard of... before." Yeah, Tyler... we know. You've been doing these videos for two years. You don't know anything.

[@daveturner5305]

You might consider American construction methods for housing. Even though not as in close proximity as London was there is a lot of wood involved. Think of the damage caused to property by fires on the west coast - California etc. Apparently there was little loss of life in the Great Fire because people could get away. In a serious fire loss of life can be caused by lack of oxygen in addition to heat, smoke and the fire itself. My thoughts go out to the US firefighters (and others throughout the world) who have lost their lives trying to protect property that is already lost.

[@rosaliegolding5549]

In those days houses were made of wood ,but to build a brick house for the masses was non existent , there were NO skilled brick builders OR the skill of making bricks also there was no large factories in existence ,SO they got the Dutch to come over and teach them in both skills that is why when you travel through the UK you see Dutch styled buildings if you lookup 🤷‍♀️

[@natashahabour5924]

erm....the trouble with the death count is then ....not all people whom died or went missing were considered the dead....of course they were/are part of the count....meaning the true death count is very unknown.....this fire is still grieved for now if you listen to how (some) people talk of it.X

[@harryjohnson9215]

There was a part 2 of the channel 5 documentary you were watching absolute history has one of the best videos on it

[@amydonnelly8255]

There is a common belief that The great fire might have actually been a little bit of a blessing in disguise as despite it being horrible, it did destroy the older parts of London, which were the ones principally home to rats, and of course rats carried the plague. After the fire a lot of the rats had died in London and the city found in much easier to control the plague amongst the population. As for the death toll, history does say that there were relatively few deaths, but considering the records at the time probably didn't include poor or middle class people with much accuracy, fire (especially that hot) can destroy bodies and there was no such thing as forensic science back then.........it is perfectly possible that it was much much higher.

[@Yandarval]

This is only fortyish years after the Mayfair landed. Why is he surprised that home were wooden. Bricks were a status symbol during this time. Its just the last of several fire over the centuries in London. This programme was a three part series.

[@Wolvensfang]

Just a suggestion have a look at horrible history's its a british children's tv series that is more accurate and explains more than most of the stuff on the discovery channel.