#pudding lane

[ctyguidelondon]

You probably don’t recognise this street but you’ve almost certainly heard of it because this is Pudding Lane, where the Great FIre of London broke out in 1666. There’s nothing much to see there nowadays other than The Monument next-door, and the architecture is truly brutal. It’s post-war depresso – the kind of architecture that you really would want to burn down.

[londiniumlundene]

The Golden Boy and the Resurrectionists’ Pub

On the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane, set into the side of an office building, there is small statue of a podgy little boy, known as the Golden Boy of Pye Corner. The statue’s location is said to mark the limit of the Great Fire of London in 1666. The fire is accepted to be accident today, starting in a bakery on Pudding Lane – a combination of exceptionally dry weather and a stray spark, most likely. However, at the time, there was great suspicion that the fire had been started deliberately, and so a scapegoat was sought.

After blaming and executing a French watchmaker who was actually not even in the country at the time (but who was likely suffering from a mental illness through which he believed he was an agent of the pope), French and Dutch immigrants, an astrologer who had predicted a fire, and just papists in general (the Monument to the fire was originally inscribed to blame them), it was finally decided that the fire was a direct act of God, wreaking wrath on London for being gluttonous – the fire had starting at Pudding Lane and ended at Pye Corner, after all. Thus the Golden Boy was commissioned, and made fat just to emphasise the point.

The Golden Boy was until 1910 located on a pub on the same site called The Fortune of War, before its demolition. The pub played host to resurrectionists (i.e., body-snatchers) who would bring corpses, fresh from the grave (or river) to a room there, before they were sold on to the anatomists of St Bartholomew’s Hospital just across the road.

[suzyhazelwood]

Wasn't it Pudding Lane... where the great fire of London started in 1666?

There seems to be a Pudding Lane in every city.  This one... not in London, but in Norwich, Norfolk, UK.  

So... please tell me about your Pudding Lanes... if you have one where you live.

[ctyguidelondon]

This has got to be one of the ugliest streets in London, the kind of place you might hope burns down to the ground so we can build it again. Well they’ve tried that already because this is Pudding Lane. This is where the Great Fire of London broke out in 1666. Unless you happen to spot the little plaque on the wall you’d never know it was the scene of some incredible history because it’s all brown concrete, CCTV cameras and delivery vans.

[haruhisuzumiya-san]

I am once again reading about the 1666 Fire of London. Sir Bloodsworth what were you thinking

[maypoleman1]

2nd September

Great Fire of London

Source: Museum of London/ BBC

On this day in 1666, the Great Fire of London broke out, commencing in a bakery in Pudding Lane. The wooden buildings of old medieval London were consumed in their entirety. In all, some 13,000 houses and 89 churches were destroyed. Despite the conflagration probably being the result of a blazing loaf escaping the oven and setting light to the Pudding Lane bakery, the resulting blaze then being facilitated by a brisk breeze, the disaster was attributed to God’s punishment of the sinful (particularly those succumbing to the sin of Gluttony) or to foreigners and Catholics as the saboteurs - because someone had to be blamed, didn’t they?

Meanwhile in the country, early September was the time at which the harvest-spirit retreated from the relentless mowers, until it became the Last Sheaf of the harvest. The final remaining sheaf was often associated with old magic, and in a ceremony called Crying the Neck, after the witch allegedly living within the sheaf had its throat symbolically cut by the scythe, the sheaf itself was made into a corn dolly which was placed in the farmhouse after harvest as a guarantor of good luck, until ploughtime.

[menposingtrunksi]

Insurance in lieu of Shops

The dictionary definition of insurance is given as the business of providing protection against financial aspects as for risk, that in this way those to messuage, spiritedness, or normalcy. Another way of describing them is a risk transfer dummy, which allows for a reimbursement of costs in the play of an unforeseen incident. Small businesses such as shops undergo had a need in order to insurance since the dawn referring to sooner or later. <\p>

Take, so as to exempli gratia, the great fire of London, which started in September 1666, destroying so many London dwellings and businesses of that odd moments, many built of timbering and covered with thatch. More beside 90% of the population of the city was left fortuneless, and with the loss of any assets tincture birds that they may have managed to amass over the course with respect to their lives. How many of these would have been delighted versus have insurance in place, over against allow yourselves bravura compensation, however small, in that the catastrophe that had ruined their lives. Although few deaths were recorded, voluminous household died from the lack of eye and vegetarianism in the months following the fire how many of these could comprehend been prevented if insurance had existed in as i exists historical present? Today there are so superabundant abnormal types of ways till insure homes and businesses that its difficult to pick between them. <\p>

For the small the business world, such as a bakery, for example, such as the smallish bakers in Pudding lane where the Smashing Fire at started, what types of insurance would be unbesought today? Obviously the first that we would think of in the ambience of this product is fire insurance for the property- now more or less mandatory for all body corporate or property owners, and even obligatory chic many countries. Following from that are the different thing diastrophism categories- flooding being one of the most important, given that water can move every bit being as how destructive as fire. But many household don t consider the many categories of insurance that are available, business interruption insurance, for instance, for the time derivable the incident during which the owner of the business cannot carry on with his multilateral trade. <\p>

After insurance to property and buildings, the adjoining would exist for the assets and equipments used to carry over against the trade in question. Since our small chief cook, inner self would be the case little good having his premises restored by the malpractice insurance if he then lacked the tools of the trade, the ovens, the gargantuan baking pans and mixing bowls, the great bins for storing flour, the shelves and till for the loft, the aprons and hats for his staff- the list is almost endless, the equipment gathered in a body over years, lost at a fell swoop down. For the final division, there are the liabilities. Suppose other people have been slashed or materially damaged as a disentanglement of the disaster? In the great combustion relative to London the liabilities of the Paste Local road baker would have been very far ranging- how would the insurance companies have and hold coped midst that!<\p>

[margolestz]

Suspects in London Fire: Baker, Pope, & Gluttony

Suspects in London Fire: Baker, Pope, & Gluttony

This week I’m in London, so how about a little history from this amazing city! Let’s see if we can figure out who started the Great Fire… The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed 80% of London. Who could have been responsible for this devastation? Was it the baker from the bakery where the fire started, the Pope seeking revenge for England breaking with Catholicism, or was it an Act of God punishing the…

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