The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to fix the old city's problems. None of these plans were ever adopted.

Most residents lived in appalling conditions. After the Great Fire of 1666, which destroyed more than 85 percent of the city, London was rebuilt in a hasty and haphazard manner. Then rapid surge ...

For centuries, fire was one of the major fears for city-dwellers. Dense cities built largely of wood could—and did—burn. In 1666, a fire in a bakery went on to destroy two-thirds of the city ...

There were lots of reasons that combined to make it easy for the fire to spread quickly and destroy large parts of the city. In 1666 the nature of the buildings and the weather conditions made a ...

Then, in 1666, London was almost destroyed by a huge fire. He wrote about seeing the flames spreading, hoping his own things didn't catch fire. He talked to people about how the Great Fire of ...