![]() ![]() Pepys awoke at 2am and travelled downriver to Woolwich, some seven miles from London Bridge, from where it still looked as if the whole city was ablaze. But we should not at all think that the battle against the inferno had been won. Moreover, the change in wind direction was now aiding the containment efforts, too, and more citizens were returning to the city to play their part in bringing the hellish nightmare to an end. ![]() We have already seen how, on the previous day, things had begun to move in the Londoners’ favour. By blowing up entire streets with gunpowder, those fighting the fire had created wider firebreaks that were beginning to check the fire’s spread. Wednesday 5 September 1666: an end in sight to the Great Fire of London? By Ian StoneĪs dawn broke on Wednesday 5 September 1666, 355 years ago today, some 60 per cent of the city of London had been laid waste by the greatest fire ever to have engulfed England’s biggest and most important city. ![]()
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