Thomas Faryner and Great Fire of London brown plaque

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# Pudding Lane Standing on this narrow medieval street in the City of London, you're at the very epicenter of one of history's most catastrophic fires—the modest bakehouse where Thomas Faryner, baker to King Charles II himself, worked his ovens on the night of September 1st, 1666. It was here, in t...

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Near this site stood the shop belonging to Thomas Faryner, the King's Baker, in which the Great Fire of September 1666 began. Presented by the Worshipful Company of Bakers to mark the 500th anniversary of their charter granted by King Henry VII in 1486