London Monument To The Great Fire. Monument to the Great Fire of London, UK Stock Photo Alamy Commemorating the Great Fire of London , it stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 feet (61.6 m) in height and 202 feet west of the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2. When the fire spread from Thomas Farynor's bakery at 2 am on Sunday 2nd September 1666, more than 86% of London was razed to the ground and 130,000 people lost their homes in what was later called the Great Fire of London.
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When the fire spread from Thomas Farynor's bakery at 2 am on Sunday 2nd September 1666, more than 86% of London was razed to the ground and 130,000 people lost their homes in what was later called the Great Fire of London. Welcome to The Monument The official website for The Monument, one of the City's most-loved attractions, which offers panoramic views over London
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The Great Fire of London Monument, London, England, UK Stock Photo Alamy. The 202ft column, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Dr Robert Hooke, was built to commemorate the Great Fire of 1666 and stands on the piazza between Fish Street Hill and Monument Street. The Monument, 1750, Sutton Nicholls The fire began in a baker's house in Pudding Lane on Sunday 2nd September 1666 and finally extinguished on Wednesday 5th September, after destroying the greater part of the City.
Looking up at the Great Fire of London Monument, by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, lit up at. When the fire spread from Thomas Farynor's bakery at 2 am on Sunday 2nd September 1666, more than 86% of London was razed to the ground and 130,000 people lost their homes in what was later called the Great Fire of London. The Monument to the Great Fire of London, to give it its full name, is a commemorative Doric column built to serve as a permanent reminder of the Great Fire of London, 1666 and to celebrate the rebuilding of the city