The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to ...

An illustration of the Great Fire of London. The west side of St Paul's Cathedral is on fire and people are fleeing from the gates of London with their belongings. The stones of St Paul’s flew ...

But it was 333 years ago this week that Builth suffered ... And remarkably, just like the Great Fire of London in 1666, there seem to have been few or even no casualties. Most sources suggest ...

Two hundred years ago today, Edinburgh’s Old Town ... in the city’s history – lasting as long as the Great Fire of London two centuries earlier and proving more deadly.

A building which is believed to be the only structure to have survived the Great Fire of London on the Strand has been damaged after a bus crashed into it. The Wig and Pen, which survived the 1666 ...

ending the 19-year Anglo-Spanish War. It later served as the headquarters for the parliamentary army during the English Civil War, and narrowly escaped burning in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

the same year much of the city was devastated by fire, and was delayed by a fire in 1135. It was then destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, at which point the old structure was razed in f ...