Londoners ‘Celebrate’ Great Fire By Setting Wooden Model on Fire

A massive wooden replica model of 17th century London was develop ablaze on the River Thames on Lord's Day black to grade the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London that razed the metropolis inward 1666. The 120-meter-long wooden model of London’s skyline , titled London 1666 , was designed past times the American creative someone David Best , who is best known for edifice immense structures from woods together with burning them to the Blue Planet , by together with large for Nevada’s annual Burning Man festival.

The exhibitions together with events marker the anniversary included , aside from the model burning , populace fine art installations , tours , nutrient marketplace together with an odd exhibition of recipes together with remedies for burns together with scalds used at the fourth dimension of the fire.

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The Great Fire of London , which started at the bakery on Pudding Lane , on the black of September ii , 1666 , raged for 4 days , destroying 80% of the by together with large wooden buildings inward the medieval metropolis of London. It left an estimated lxx ,000 of the city's fourscore ,000 inhabitants homeless. Officially , solely 6 people were reported to accept died , because the misfortunate together with middle-class people were non documented. Besides , the oestrus of the bathroom was then peachy that many victims mightiness accept been totally consumed past times the bathroom leaving picayune to no skeletal remains.

London , every bit nosotros know today , was eventually rebuilt alongside grey Portland rock , simply the one-time street layout was preserved.

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