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Who was to blame for the Great Fire of London?

Who was to blame for the Great Fire of London?. Samuel Pepys.

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Who was to blame for the Great Fire of London?

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  1. Who was to blame for the Great Fire of London?

  2. Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys lived in Seething Lane, not far from the Tower of London. At three o’clock in the morning on Sunday 2 September 1666, his maid woke him to tell him there was a large fire in the city. Pepys got up, looked out the window and decided that the fire was too far away for him to get worried. He went back to bed. When Pepys awoke later that morning, he took the fire a lot more seriously. Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist

  3. Began early on the morning of Sunday 2 September • Followed long hot summer • Houses made of wood & thatch • Packed closely together • Spread to warehouses on river front packed with timber, pitch & oil • Gunpowder used to create fire breaks Engraving of a row of houses in Cheapside in C17th

  4. What were the effects of the Great Fire of London? Click the pictures to activate the animations. The aftermath of the fire The spread of the fire

  5. What effect did the fire have? • Lasted from Sunday 2 Septmber to Friday 7 September 1666 • 13,000 houses • 88 churches • 100,000 people made homeless • 1/6 of London destroyed • Total damage £10 million (London’s annual income £12,000

  6. Who was to blame? • Baker in Pudding Lane • Catholics – man carrying ‘firebombs’, turned out to be tennis balls! • French -Robert Hubert, Frenchman, accused of using gunpowder, executed 27 October 1666 Execution at Tyburn (near modern day Oxford Street)

  7. Why do modern historians have different views about who or what caused the Great Fire of London? C17th leather fire bucket

  8.  Your task Click here to hear an example • Read the sources in your pack and complete a table similar to the one below:  Write a report explain how you think the Great Fire was started, remembering to back up your theories with as much evidence as you can. You may want to write it as if you were a modern day detective investigating the event.

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