What creeped the heck out of me... A young child asked me if cross Channel Ferries ever sank. {Joining England to France} I replied ''no''...and then the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster struck hours later... {That was not England to France, but Zeebrugge, but still....}
@T Doran most of ww1 for starters, one in this documentary, I'm sure you could throw in an example about a british officer scoffing at the idea of a bunch of rebel colonists defeating the mighty british empire
Bored with what I usually watch I've gotten into our lost history ~~ disasters such as this. It should not be forgotten. You've done a great job. Thank you.
An excellent documentary, many thanks for sharing. Being an eyewitness and diarist, Samuel Pepys probably bequeathed us the most detailed account of the unfolding disaster. It's well worth reading his diary...
London in medieval times was a rabbit warren of thatched barns filled with hay and wood. Amazed large fires like the one of 1666 did not happen more often, particularly during warmer summer years.
@@xi7837 That was the solar minimum before the industrial revolution. Summers were still warm enough to sustain large fires. Fires did break out every year but none got as out of control as the the great fire of 1666.
Hey man, thank you for uploading- really good to see this for the first time since my VCR ate the tape I recorded this on 15 years ago ( Though I miss the adverts for On Digital and BT Interent circa Autumn 2001 that were on my original video. Genuineky- thank you though (Feel free to PM me to talk further, particularly about the first five minutes ;))
True. We have the means to do it right now anyways. I would guess it as more of a drama though.... It's definitely horrible, but the term of "horror movie" makes me think of more supernatural stuff than real human horror.
I'm So very Marveled And Couldn't Imagine Why Britain wasn't Wrote A Novel about the most dangerous historical events that obliterated old London in international cinema??! Did You Thinking That There's A Curse Or Someone Who Makes A Conjured?
What's crazy is that it DIDN'T happen a hundred times before. Open fires for cooking, heat and light in every single one of those million wooden structures. Think of all that- every day the pet cat in hundreds of houses brushing by a candle, every little kid running around...... they must have been legitimately terrified of fire to keep it from happening half a dozen times a year on this scale.
@@colemarie9262 Very good point. I'm a historian , and over the years i noticed a similar pattern throughout history. We only hear about the disasters and wars that happend, We never hear the incredible odds how we humans (for example) survived the cold war. From Soviet individual generals and even sub marine captains who refused to launch the nuclear missiles, and the the 66 times nuclear missiles where almost launched by both U.S & Soviets because of flawed radar images. The NAZI General who refused to blow up Paris defying Hitlers orders when the Germans had to retreat. How the black plague & Spanish flu 'died out' by itself, etc,etc. Humans have escaped ten times more disasters then they should have. Fascinating stuff.
Wooden chimneys. Even as a little kid that baffled me. Log cabins were prone to burning down in the US frontier. Frontier as in Appalachian mountains timeframe.
@@spiritualanarchist8162 You are absolutely correct. Sometimes I think the human body is so fragile and susceptible disease and injury. Then there's all those cases where people survive when the odds were 100% against them. Like getting blown out of a B-17 over Germany and failing 22,000 feet without your parachute and surviving the landing. When people hear of "the plague" they usually think the Black Death of 1340's. But when you dig into history plagues were pretty common, not rare at all.
It's absolutely amazing to me that no matter how many documentaries on disasters like this from the past most will never know the sheer terror and horror those who lived through these tragedies actually experienced. Even today with the massive wildfires that destroyed entire towns we can't understand just how devastating it is for those who survived. I honestly wouldn't have the presence of mind to think clearly. I'd just run
The history lost in the great fire and then during the blitz is so devastating to think about. It is so abstract to our minds today the level of loss that was witnessed. We cant imagine just how great that loss was! British people should be so proud of their historic resilience.
I can only imagine in a few hundred years how this last 18months will be told. I love anything historical and sadly all has its victims, but they are all fascinating to learn about.
With the houses connected and stacked it wouldn’t take long for whole streets or whole cities to burn to the ground. The creation of green spaces could have worked as a natural fire break in the city.
The “jettying” building technique that makes upper floors larger than the lower ones didn’t help. Check out Shadiversity channel to find a decent video on that topic...
To get an actual sense of the scale and ornate details of St. Pauls, google it and go to maps and you can wander around inside of it, courtesy of the Google cams.
Save his entire business more like. I don't blame the guy...there was no real help for the poor or homeless at that time after all. Especially when half the city is suddenly homeless.
I often wondered about his parmesan cheese, i just saw a documentary somewhere else where Pepys’ house was untouched by the fire, so yes, his cheese was safe! Score
TWSTF 8 haha this is my favorite quote “A man that was not known for his mathematical skills said that the fire was 50 miles high” Haha what?!? Such a weird thing to say!
TWSTF 8 Yea....our ancestors were a colorful bunch weren’t they...🙄🤦♀️ Yea....you could not pay me to stand over a fire and pee it out. Certain unmentionables are gonna get burned, I rather not have to explain it to my doctor.
As a man, have you ever surprised yourself with how much you can piss before? I've stood at the toilet in the morning in amazement that it just never ends.
"On the second and third of September that year, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. However, it is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place."
I've been searching high and low for this particular documentary. an apsalutely great piece of work. It's a pitty that you've missed the first 5 minutes or so of it though.
@@BR1ANm I guess that explains the weird silent bit towards the end too? Gotta do what you gotta do to keep the YT machine happy. Either way, thanks for the upload.
Ian Rutherford -- If it weren't for the music, the poor people of London would never have known that a fire was out-of-control, and destroying their city. I live in The States, and whenever there's a house fire, there is always an orchestra that shows up...thank God.
Has an explanation ever been put forth for the observer(s) that witnessed houses catching fire in multiple locations outside the fire zone? Not the roofs beginning to burn, but flames coming out of lower floors before spreading to the roof. National Geographic:The Great Fire of London-The Untold Story.
My great great great Grandpa Was in London Then He was born in 1599 then died in 1687 On July 14 And he evacuate 32 kilometres north of London so he survived
I really liked this but it was funny the narrator said the wind speed was 7 “knots per hour” when a knot is a measurement already in hours. It would be like saying the wind was at 7 miles per hour per hour.
Knots only makes sense to those in navies, coast guards, merchant marines--- and those of use who have loved to sail in our private sailboats and watched for small craft warnings.
The fire roughly covered the same section of London that the Germans tried to firebomb in the week after Christmas 1940. The book dealers were even still there.
My grandfather remembers walking down Lombard street as a young boy in the 1660s and seeing men hurriedly removing big boxes of valuables from the houses whilst coughing and spluttering. I love my grandfather, and his perfectly sane mind.
he never retreived them..... on his death, his will left all his possesions to his wife. The wheels of cheese were recovered 1710 and were placed with his family's bank in a vault at Coutts Bank on the Strand. They are are still there now in Coutts' museum.
One important fact about the London fire I think they missed was it stopped the spread of bubonic plague that was sprouting up there. Plague would have killed millions had it not been for the fire that destroyed the unsanitary slum-like areas where it was becoming prevalent.
Someone who has brains to work out that the plague wouldve killed more if the fire didnt happen.. Thankyou its nice to see ppl with common sense, im half british my father born in england and many of my lineage b4 this so i dont and cant imagine what wouldve happened if the fire didnt start and no offence but the royal family back than didnt care so why should they care now about this covid virus its just another way of mother nature sorting ppl out
Speeds are measured in knots, period. 1 knot is 1 nautical mile/hour. "Knots per hour" would be a rate of acceleration. Documentary makers should know that.
When I was still a baby an explosion set our small home on fire. It was determined afterwards, that a 5 gallon tin, packed with flour and left behind a wood burning stove heated to the point of ignition. It had never occurred to my mother that such a thing was possible.
By discription of his appearance it seems that the watchmaker has had a stroke !! What hasn’t been discussed is the fact that a backdraft from the chimney could have caused this whole mess.
Thank you so much for this upload. It’s a seriously well done doco. I’m very glad you found this as it’s one of my favourite times in history.Liked and subbed but.... @59:48,,,,1200 houses already built by early 1668?. For starters I don’t really think that is a seriously praiseworthy achievement. Yes, I grant that many of the builders were unskilled but still houses were very much smaller and simpler(in working areas such as those referenced here.) But also, that workers were semi-skilled at best might have been beneficial because there’d be no needing plans approved, numbering of doorways; just about anyone who could handle a hammer could have started to rebuild, and there were many thousands of people that could do that. Aaannnd I think I just thought my thoughts right around into a circle because the 1200 would not have had insurance to enable rebuilding. Soo, maybe the 1200 is impressive! And no Go Fund Me either, because the fire wiped out all the phone pylons. Shame.
About 4 years ago we had an office in Fayers house which is built on the bakers that started the great fire of London. Anyway we was all working away and lots of people in the building opposite stood on the balcony looking at our building and more kept joining. We looked out of the window and there was smoke outside. The fire alarms did not go off. Someone came around five minutes later telling us to get out and the fire brigade turned up. Turns out the air conditioning unit on the roof was on fire so there could have been a great 🔥of 2018.
I remember the original “War of the World “ by HG Wells , was narrated by Richard Burton, a wonderful voice, that I will never forget. He also does the voice over in the film Rorkes Drift.
@@jamesunsworth6865 I missed that. I saw him on Johnny Carson one night in the '70s; he read about a dozen names and addresses from an LA area phonebook. Very dramatic.
@@michaelbrownlee9497 Ian Rutherford is correct. A knot is measure of speed, not distance. Also, the Beaufort scale is a crude measure of wind speed and not directly translatable into any unit of energy.
A nautical mile is equivalent to 2025.37183 yards, That is a measure of distance so if a nautical mile has a fixed distance it can also be used as a measure of speed.
@@njmarknj This is why I read the comments, I love this sort of information exchange. Wish it could have been ongoing to reach a conclusion. I learnt something anyway. Thanks for this
@@stevenschnepp576 Surprisingly it was not rare for people to reach their 80's even occasional 90+. But first you had to survive infancy and childhood.
Roger Surf the 7 knots per hour was the wind speed that day and generally would have felt like a gentle breeze but for the force of the wind additionally created by the inferno. This would have created a high end situation that spread the fire swiftly t additional structures.
@@gailhandschuh1138 Gail, for your information, in this case, to use the term "Knots per hour" does not make sense. A Knot is one nautical mile per hour. Therefore the narrator in the video should have said 7 nautical miles per hour. To say 7 knots per hour would technically mean there is some acceleration going on. Read about it in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(unit)
@@pete5668 Yes, the script was probably written as knots, but then someone proof reading it though knots doesn't sound right. And made knots per hour. Perhaps knots per hour is a unit for acceleration, similar to meters per second per second. Just being silly with that comment.
People might criticise Thomas Farriner but it's dead easy to look at a pile of wood embers that are grey and just a bit warm and think it's extinguished. Even a slight breeze can turn one of those smouldering black embers or flakes of ash red hot with no effort at all, and that's even before it gets blown out of the oven.
The King was back months before that and the streets were full. What the fuck are you talking about, jackanory, no one's interested in your delusions. It's a discredited theory ages ago, read a book and stop wasting people's time with your made up wankety-wank, cheque book and pen. ""Plague cases continued to occur sporadically at a modest rate until the summer of 1666. On the second and third of September that year, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. However, it is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place. In fact, most of the later cases of plague were found in the suburbs,[49] and it was the City of London itself that was destroyed by the Fire.[50]"" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London
If the great fire of London stopped the plague from happening again I wonder what will happen to London if the coronovirus came here I don't think I wanna know
This was a warning to England to stop it's colonizing, it didn't heed the warning, but instead it accelerated it. Now the chickens have come home to roost, and chickens coming home never made me sad, it always made me glad.
Look at this from an esoteric point of view. Many, many dates in history definitely pique initiated ones’ curiously. This, and there’s the WW1 armistice on 11/11 at 11am = 33 highly symbolic. I digress, I feel there’s far more going on behind the scenes. Not necessarily for nefarious reasons but this kind of thing does indeed exist. Thank you for uploading. I miss these good old documentaries, that are a rarity these days. Especially, ones produced in the UK. Far superior than the American ones
Sadly many of the cities of this time were built of wood , even the Limestone that they used was flame able this fire could have happened any time day or night. There was not a great concern for safety of the masses at this time.
Didn't know that limestone could burn. That's very interesting... I think GB should plant more trees - have heard that vast rural areas are still treeless. That king was a good one.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/three-myths-you-believe-about-great-fire-london It says here that thatched roofs were outlawed in 1189 after a big fire and all existing thatched roofs had to be plastered. So yes, safety regulations did exist.
Hundreds of houses and businesses burn down :nothing Fire threatens guild hall : Oh heavens the humiliation of the givernment. I mean even in the retrospective dicumentaries the entire viewpoint is completely out of whack. meanwhile they say people are irrational for carrying setimental goods. sigh... Also, I would like to meet the genius who thought the best material to make chimneys out of was wood. That being said, I have found that the old British architecture was a very strong fire magnet. In my area, there were a ton of buildings before the British era and After the British era, but curiously British era buildings are very flammable for some reason. I don't know what it is, but even other buildings made of the same materials are not that fire prone. There must be some reason - some materials they used, how they used it, architecture or something that makes them particularly prone to fires.
The fact they allowed the handicapped immigrant to hang knowing there was no window is deeply disturbing. How horrific that they witnessed the fallacy in his “confession” seemingly to save the bakers skin is so dark…all that instead of acknowledging the chance of mistake…
Chimneys made of WOOD (covered in mud) SERIOUSLY?! What the Hell were they thinking?! 🙄🤦♀️ That would give a fire inspector a heart attack seeing that today! 😅Not to mention make ones insurance payments go thru the roof!
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Always rains in London except when it's on fire.
😂😂😂
Good job we stopped building in wood and changed to brick after
Lol
🤣🤣🤣 genius
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There's nothing like a warm, cozy fire to bring a community together.
Like literally.
And a witch to go with it
Zak Jansen
LOL.
I was in Girl Scouts. I could make a roaring fire like it was nobodies business.....no gasoline required!😅
Sike I love marshmallows
And a sense of humour.
im starting to realize a lot of british disasters start from someone in charge saying " Pfft, nonsense, that will never happen"
😢 You know us well
The surrender at Singapore
What creeped the heck out of me...
A young child asked me if cross Channel Ferries ever sank. {Joining England to France}
I replied ''no''...and then the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster struck hours later... {That was not England to France, but Zeebrugge, but still....}
@T Doran most of ww1 for starters, one in this documentary, I'm sure you could throw in an example about a british officer scoffing at the idea of a bunch of rebel colonists defeating the mighty british empire
@T Doran Hurricane ...Michael Fish. {long time ago, but the said ''don't worry , it isn't going to happen''
"How much fire footage do you need for your documentary?"
...All of it... give us every single frame of fire you've got.
@ ...wooooooow.
And your sexiest bread-making shots too...
Lmao. « How much footage do you want? ».« ...Yes... »
hahahahaha
Don White there’s always one wet blanket to ruin the fun.
Bored with what I usually watch I've gotten into our lost history ~~ disasters such as this. It should not be forgotten. You've done a great job. Thank you.
Thank you for this upload! I love mellow sounding British voices /bbc history documentaries like this
An excellent documentary, many thanks for sharing. Being an eyewitness and diarist, Samuel Pepys probably bequeathed us the most detailed account of the unfolding disaster. It's well worth reading his diary...
London in medieval times was a rabbit warren of thatched barns filled with hay and wood. Amazed large fires like the one of 1666 did not happen more often, particularly during warmer summer years.
That's a popular misconception
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/three-myths-you-believe-about-great-fire-london
It did though! I think the 1666 one was just popularised more than the previous ones.
And mud, mainly mud covering the wood. Just saying
The Thames used to freeze over yearly so it's not that suprising
@@xi7837 That was the solar minimum before the industrial revolution. Summers were still warm enough to sustain large fires. Fires did break out every year but none got as out of control as the the great fire of 1666.
1665 - The plague : "I will bring death and destruction to London like never before!"
1666 - The fire : "Hold my beer!"
Fire: Hold my TEA!!
Fire: hold my gasoline
Pretty much.
@Christina Reynolds no, i mean that the Londoners had some very bad years
2020: fine I’ll do it myself
This is an amazing documentary !!!! Thank you so much for sharing it !
Hey man, thank you for uploading- really good to see this for the first time since my VCR ate the tape I recorded this on 15 years ago ( Though I miss the adverts for On Digital and BT Interent circa Autumn 2001 that were on my original video.
Genuineky- thank you though (Feel free to PM me to talk further, particularly about the first five minutes ;))
I have a love for medieval British architecture, and it saddens me to know how much of Britain has been lost after the fire in 1666 and 2nd world war.
Coventry?
look into the tartarian buildings all around the world, i think you will love it
@@seerstone3414 Berlin...Dresden...Hamburg.....
YES!
@@CoffeeLover-mz7bk
London looked really nice like this before the fire burned it down.
We need a horror movie about the Great Fire of London it would totally cool.
That would be a badass movie
And totally feasible nowadays. Could be one of the best disaster movies since “A Night to Remember”.
@ or The Last Jedi... (makes Batman and Robin look good)
True. We have the means to do it right now anyways. I would guess it as more of a drama though....
It's definitely horrible, but the term of "horror movie" makes me think of more supernatural stuff than real human horror.
I'm So very Marveled And Couldn't Imagine Why Britain wasn't Wrote A Novel about the most dangerous historical events that obliterated old London in international cinema??!
Did You Thinking That There's A Curse Or Someone Who Makes A Conjured?
Wooden building and open fires everywhere...What could go wrong?
😂😂😂
What's crazy is that it DIDN'T happen a hundred times before. Open fires for cooking, heat and light in every single one of those million wooden structures. Think of all that- every day the pet cat in hundreds of houses brushing by a candle, every little kid running around...... they must have been legitimately terrified of fire to keep it from happening half a dozen times a year on this scale.
@@colemarie9262 Very good point. I'm a historian , and over the years i noticed a similar pattern throughout history. We only hear about the disasters and wars that happend, We never hear the incredible odds how we humans (for example) survived the cold war. From Soviet individual generals and even sub marine captains who refused to launch the nuclear missiles, and the the 66 times nuclear missiles where almost launched by both U.S & Soviets because of flawed radar images. The NAZI General who refused to blow up Paris defying Hitlers orders when the Germans had to retreat. How the black plague & Spanish flu 'died out' by itself, etc,etc. Humans have escaped ten times more disasters then they should have. Fascinating stuff.
Wooden chimneys. Even as a little kid that baffled me. Log cabins were prone to burning down in the US frontier. Frontier as in Appalachian mountains timeframe.
@@spiritualanarchist8162 You are absolutely correct. Sometimes I think the human body is so fragile and susceptible disease and injury. Then there's all those cases where people survive when the odds were 100% against them. Like getting blown out of a B-17 over Germany and failing 22,000 feet without your parachute and surviving the landing.
When people hear of "the plague" they usually think the Black Death of 1340's. But when you dig into history plagues were pretty common, not rare at all.
A wonderful documentary!!!!
Saw it first I did 😏😏🥒👌💦
The whole damn documentary is fire footage...
Well, it is about a fire
Its just the same clips on a loop.
Well what did you expect? A documentary on CHEESE????
Phone - English toasted cheese.
Well duh!
It's absolutely amazing to me that no matter how many documentaries on disasters like this from the past most will never know the sheer terror and horror those who lived through these tragedies actually experienced. Even today with the massive wildfires that destroyed entire towns we can't understand just how devastating it is for those who survived. I honestly wouldn't have the presence of mind to think clearly. I'd just run
The history lost in the great fire and then during the blitz is so devastating to think about. It is so abstract to our minds today the level of loss that was witnessed. We cant imagine just how great that loss was! British people should be so proud of their historic resilience.
The vast majority of history is lost, even from the times when written records were kept.
I can only imagine in a few hundred years how this last 18months will be told. I love anything historical and sadly all has its victims, but they are all fascinating to learn about.
With the houses connected and stacked it wouldn’t take long for whole streets or whole cities to burn to the ground. The creation of green spaces could have worked as a natural fire break in the city.
The “jettying” building technique that makes upper floors larger than the lower ones didn’t help.
Check out Shadiversity channel to find a decent video on that topic...
To get an actual sense of the scale and ornate details of St. Pauls, google it and go to maps and you can wander around inside of it, courtesy of the Google cams.
Samuel Pepys dug a hole where he stored his Parmesan cheese, newly imported from Italy.
Good man, save the cheese!
I wonder if he ever went back to get his cheese.
Night Has Fallen he could have cut it too
Save his entire business more like. I don't blame the guy...there was no real help for the poor or homeless at that time after all.
Especially when half the city is suddenly homeless.
I often wondered about his parmesan cheese, i just saw a documentary somewhere else where Pepys’ house was untouched by the fire, so yes, his cheese was safe! Score
Haha, "He remarked that a woman could piss it out." 😂
TWSTF 8 haha this is my favorite quote “A man that was not known for his mathematical skills said that the fire was 50 miles high”
Haha what?!? Such a weird thing to say!
TWSTF 8
Yea....our ancestors were a colorful bunch weren’t they...🙄🤦♀️
Yea....you could not pay me to stand over a fire and pee it out.
Certain unmentionables are gonna get burned, I rather not have to explain it to my doctor.
@@christinad4432 😂😂😂😂😂
She must have had one hell of a bladder.hahaha😀😃
As a man, have you ever surprised yourself with how much you can piss before? I've stood at the toilet in the morning in amazement that it just never ends.
I am happy that I found this video!
Wooden chimneys.. heck at least it stopped the plague.
Every cloud...
"On the second and third of September that year, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. However, it is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place."
Brian Molloy yeah, you’re right, the plague ended in the depths of winter 1666.
That's a myth
I've been searching high and low for this particular documentary. an apsalutely great piece of work. It's a pitty that you've missed the first 5 minutes or so of it though.
It's about a minute removed, for music copyright reasons
Absolutely.
@@BR1ANm I guess that explains the weird silent bit towards the end too? Gotta do what you gotta do to keep the YT machine happy. Either way, thanks for the upload.
Absolutely a pity 😉
@@karolynko LOL
Amazing that right on every minute of the fire dramatic music can be heard!
Ian Rutherford -- If it weren't for the music, the poor people of London would never have known that a fire was out-of-control, and destroying their city. I live in The States, and whenever there's a house fire, there is always an orchestra that shows up...thank God.
AMAZING documentary!!!! I really learned a lot from it!!!!
Me too !!!
Me three!
We in NYC had two devastating fires. First one was in 1776 as the Revolution was raging all over the NYC area, and the other was, I think, 1836.
Exellent documentary
I chose The Great fire of London as my National History Day project, and… This did help me.
Thanks
Dude I'm in the same boat! Good luck!
+@@NadiaOnline, Same to you and I’m still not done and it’s due tomorrow!!
Durga poudel due tomorrow? Is that just when your teacher wants to see it? In Texas we compete in the middle of February.
Has an explanation ever been put forth for the observer(s) that witnessed houses catching fire in multiple locations outside the fire zone?
Not the roofs beginning to burn, but flames coming out of lower floors before spreading to the roof.
National Geographic:The Great Fire of London-The Untold Story.
So how'd ya do on your project?
My great great great Grandpa Was in London Then He was born in 1599 then died in 1687 On July 14 And he evacuate 32 kilometres north of London so he survived
I really liked this but it was funny the narrator said the wind speed was 7 “knots per hour” when a knot is a measurement already in hours. It would be like saying the wind was at 7 miles per hour per hour.
yes. 1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour.
Knots only makes sense to those in navies, coast guards, merchant marines--- and those of use who have loved to sail in our private sailboats and watched for small craft warnings.
@@DeniseEggertwaterlily Aircraft still use knots and nautical miles.
Judging by ur pfp I thought u would have flashbacks and curl up into a ball
We had to learn it in my engineering courses as well.
Thank you for posting this :D
Very good Documentary
I've climbed the tower in remembrance to the fire of London when I was at school you get a citifacate at the end
Great documentary 👍🇬🇧.I used to love learning about all this at school including the plague etc.
I’ve been learning the great fire of London and I’m doing a play of it and I’ll be Mrs Pepys
Elizabeth Pepys, did your play ever come to fruition?
Um, you might want to check on her husband’s use of sexual favours as a means of court intrigue before “jumping in”...
Cold Sufflez - Poor thing; Mr. Pepys was a douche...
The fire roughly covered the same section of London that the Germans tried to firebomb in the week after Christmas 1940. The book dealers were even still there.
My grandfather remembers walking down Lombard street as a young boy in the 1660s and seeing men hurriedly removing big boxes of valuables from the houses whilst coughing and spluttering. I love my grandfather, and his perfectly sane mind.
Lol
How tragic did the parmasian cheese make it?
Samuel Peyps never mentioned it in his later diary enteries.
@@CoffeeLover-mz7bk It probably melted due to the intense heat above. Hard cheese, Pepys......
Jennifer or.... dairy entries?
he never retreived them..... on his death, his will left all his possesions to his wife. The wheels of cheese were recovered 1710 and were placed with his family's bank in a vault at Coutts Bank on the Strand. They are are still there now in Coutts' museum.
great documentary i saw this years ago :)
I saw it before you !!
"thieves, looters and rent seekers, oh my"
Bunne Rabb - I appreciate the distinction, but why be redundant...
@@dorianphilotheates3769 heh
Nothing changes in London lol
One important fact about the London fire I think they missed was it stopped the spread of bubonic plague that was sprouting up there. Plague would have killed millions had it not been for the fire that destroyed the unsanitary slum-like areas where it was becoming prevalent.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/three-myths-you-believe-about-great-fire-london
the plague was stopped by the winter season.
They do mention it, but it may not be in this version of the video.
Someone who has brains to work out that the plague wouldve killed more if the fire didnt happen..
Thankyou its nice to see ppl with common sense, im half british my father born in england and many of my lineage b4 this so i dont and cant imagine what wouldve happened if the fire didnt start and no offence but the royal family back than didnt care so why should they care now about this covid virus its just another way of mother nature sorting ppl out
The Black Plague was 300 years before the Great Fire of London, so, NO, totally unrelated.
Speeds are measured in knots, period. 1 knot is 1 nautical mile/hour. "Knots per hour" would be a rate of acceleration. Documentary makers should know that.
When I was still a baby an explosion set our small home on fire. It was determined afterwards, that a 5 gallon tin, packed with flour and left behind a wood burning stove heated to the point of ignition. It had never occurred to my mother that such a thing was possible.
I'm watching this, because I'm learning English ... This is a really interesting!! ...but I'm so sorry for all people died! :(
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Why? Death is just a natural part of living
Your Englis is very good.
acgillespie True but it’s still sad that those people died
@@Ok-vx8jo .Only in death do we really live. Life is just a school and tests. it pays to pay attention.
No surprise, you build wood buildings touching each other, and opposite more across narrow streets, one goes up in flames they all go
Because of this amazing documentary, i have gain more knowledge about the great fire of London 1666 and it breaks my heart that it happened 😢.
I have had the opportunity to go to London to see these things and it is breathtaking.
I believe this was part of “Fire, Plague, War and Treason” as shown on Channel 4 in 2001. Four documentaries and they were superb.
By discription of his appearance it seems that the watchmaker has had a stroke !! What hasn’t been discussed is the fact that a backdraft from the chimney could have caused this whole mess.
“A man that was not known for his mathematical skills said that the fire was 50 miles high”🤔
Huh? Haha
4:30 - yes. His hair piece truly was that large...
Thank you so much for this upload. It’s a seriously well done doco. I’m very glad you found this as it’s one of my favourite times in history.Liked and subbed but....
@59:48,,,,1200 houses already built by early 1668?. For starters I don’t really think that is a seriously praiseworthy achievement. Yes, I grant that many of the builders were unskilled but still houses were very much smaller and simpler(in working areas such as those referenced here.) But also, that workers were semi-skilled at best might have been beneficial because there’d be no needing plans approved, numbering of doorways; just about anyone who could handle a hammer could have started to rebuild, and there were many thousands of people that could do that. Aaannnd I think I just thought my thoughts right around into a circle because the 1200 would not have had insurance to enable rebuilding. Soo, maybe the 1200 is impressive! And no Go Fund Me either, because the fire wiped out all the phone pylons. Shame.
About 4 years ago we had an office in Fayers house which is built on the bakers that started the great fire of London. Anyway we was all working away and lots of people in the building opposite stood on the balcony looking at our building and more kept joining. We looked out of the window and there was smoke outside.
The fire alarms did not go off. Someone came around five minutes later telling us to get out and the fire brigade turned up. Turns out the air conditioning unit on the roof was on fire so there could have been a great 🔥of 2018.
Oh my gosh there is so much via London
Who is the narrator? Man I love his voice; reminds me of Richard Burton in The War of the World rock opera (Jeff Wayne.)
I remember the original “War of the World “ by HG Wells , was narrated by Richard Burton, a wonderful voice, that I will never forget. He also does the voice over in the film Rorkes Drift.
@@jamesunsworth6865 I missed that. I saw him on Johnny Carson one night in the '70s; he read about a dozen names and addresses from an LA area phonebook. Very dramatic.
The wind speed was not '7 knots per hour'.It may have been 7 nautical miles per hour ,simply ,
7 knots.A knot is a unit of speed.
A knot is a measurement of distance, which is used by mariners. I think youre confusing it with the beaufort scale which is a measurement of energy.
It's correct .
@@michaelbrownlee9497 Ian Rutherford is correct. A knot is measure of speed, not distance. Also, the Beaufort scale is a crude measure of wind speed and not directly translatable into any unit of energy.
@@brucebigglesworth9532 oh yeah. What in hell was i thinking.
A nautical mile is equivalent to 2025.37183 yards, That is a measure of distance so if a nautical mile has a fixed distance it can also be used as a measure of speed.
"Knots per hour"? That is a measure of acceleration, not a measure of speed. They mean "knots" i.e. "Nautical miles per hour"
SPEED. Unit of speed.
@@toni4729 Right. Knots per hour is a measure of acceleration, knots is a measure of speed.
YOU Have a strange idea of KNOTS. LOOK IT UP,
How the hell can you state a measure of acceleration as a speed when acceleration doesn't stop?
But fires produce there own energy in the form of wind. I've been close to several total house fires, and the wind the produce is amazing.
@@njmarknj This is why I read the comments, I love this sort of information exchange. Wish it could have been ongoing to reach a conclusion. I learnt something anyway. Thanks for this
Excellent cinematography
My great grandfather from 1666 was struck by lightning in his home. He died. So interesting to hear of this.
BMG060981 Great Grandfather? In 1666? You're missing a few more greats!
@@spencerwilton5831 yeah like 10 😂
@@spencerwilton5831 They're a remarkably long-lived lot, apparently.
@@stevenschnepp576 Surprisingly it was not rare for people to reach their 80's even occasional 90+. But first you had to survive infancy and childhood.
Great grandfather, really. How old are you over 300 years old?
Excellent documentary.
Amazing.... actual footage of the fire of london, where did they find that? Lol
@HELL'S HITMAN
Touche.
Pathé news have some old archives.
Marty McFly and Doc Brown.
CERN's "Way Back Machine!"
@@Oakleaf700 Oddly, none of it from before the invention of cameras.
Let's be real- the pigeons weren't "reluctant to leave their houses", they were too stupid to fly off.
😂😂😂
Roast pigeon
49:58 Knots per Hour? A Knot is a measure of speed not distance! 7 knots per hour does not make sense!
Roger Surf the 7 knots per hour was the wind speed that day and generally would have felt like a gentle breeze but for the force of the wind additionally created by the inferno. This would have created a high end situation that spread the fire swiftly t additional structures.
@@gailhandschuh1138
Gail, for your information, in this case, to use the term "Knots per hour" does not make sense. A Knot is one nautical mile per hour. Therefore the narrator in the video should have said 7 nautical miles per hour. To say 7 knots per hour would technically mean there is some acceleration going on.
Read about it in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(unit)
@@rogersurf4149 A _knot_ is also common slang for one nautical mile.
50:00 knots per hour?
yup, should only be knots which are nautical miles per hour
@@pete5668 Yes, the script was probably written as knots, but then someone proof reading it though knots doesn't sound right. And made knots per hour.
Perhaps knots per hour is a unit for acceleration, similar to meters per second per second. Just being silly with that comment.
No wonder that year was like hell
People might criticise Thomas Farriner but it's dead easy to look at a pile of wood embers that are grey and just a bit warm and think it's extinguished. Even a slight breeze can turn one of those smouldering black embers or flakes of ash red hot with no effort at all, and that's even before it gets blown out of the oven.
Last last major epidemic plague in London reported was in 1666, this fire cleansed London. And you thought it was an accident.
The plague was in 1665
@@ivenireland8270 and ended in 1666 when the fire of London happened.
The King was back months before that and the streets were full.
What the fuck are you talking about, jackanory, no one's interested in your delusions.
It's a discredited theory ages ago, read a book and stop wasting people's time with your made up wankety-wank, cheque book and pen.
""Plague cases continued to occur sporadically at a modest rate until the summer of 1666. On the second and third of September that year, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. However, it is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place. In fact, most of the later cases of plague were found in the suburbs,[49] and it was the City of London itself that was destroyed by the Fire.[50]""
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London
Even though many people got killed, the plauge got stopped
So I guess it was a curse and a blessing....
Only six people died.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/three-myths-you-believe-about-great-fire-london
This is where the legislation Cestui Que Vie Act 1666 came from.
Declaring everyone dead so we not own any of our assets.
I use to watch the BBC videos of Fireman Sam back in the 90s when I was Hallingbury Primary School Age student.
" IT WAS TRAGIC, WE LOST EVERYTHING IN THE FIRE!
Henz Carl did we tho you see how London thrives today
The mayor, Sir Thomas has a lot to answer for he was informed about the fire early on, he said and I quote 'A woman could piss it out' and did nothing
If the great fire of London stopped the plague from happening again
I wonder what will happen to London if the coronovirus came here
I don't think I wanna know
Steel Comrade 😷. ruclips.net/video/wfmKusiSI-k/видео.html
This was a warning to England to stop it's colonizing, it didn't heed the warning, but instead it accelerated it. Now the chickens have come home to roost, and chickens coming home never made me sad, it always made me glad.
I wouldn't call it A Great fire, but it was quite good
Albert Tatlock yeah more the alright fire of London 😂😂
Look at this from an esoteric point of view. Many, many dates in history definitely pique initiated ones’ curiously. This, and there’s the WW1 armistice on 11/11 at 11am = 33 highly symbolic.
I digress, I feel there’s far more going on behind the scenes. Not necessarily for nefarious reasons but this kind of thing does indeed exist.
Thank you for uploading. I miss these good old documentaries, that are a rarity these days. Especially, ones produced in the UK. Far superior than the American ones
This is true. The elites put a lot of stock into numerology
1 666
Amen to that comment.
@Rocknroll Jimi If indeed fact it is, you should have no difficulty providing peer-reviewed research to prove it.
3:25 - they had fire alarms back then?
Church bells.
that ending though!
Hmmm, that Parmesan cheese must have melted and turned toasty brown...sounds delicious!
Marie Katherine it was actually buried deep enough to be edible afterwards as Peeps dug it up along with some wine and a few books.
@@blanchybaby Can't forget the people mixed in too
Marie Katherine can we cut the cheese
A woman could piss it out,
Proof that even way back in those times us brits still had humour.
Sadly many of the cities of this time were built of wood , even the Limestone that they used was flame able this fire could have happened any time day or night. There was not a great concern for safety of the masses at this time.
Didn't know that limestone could burn. That's very interesting... I think GB should plant more trees - have heard that vast rural areas are still treeless. That king was a good one.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/three-myths-you-believe-about-great-fire-london
It says here that thatched roofs were outlawed in 1189 after a big fire and all existing thatched roofs had to be plastered. So yes, safety regulations did exist.
Also, maybe they used so much wood because other materials were too expensive? Just because something is better doesn't mean it's doable.
Hundreds of houses and businesses burn down :nothing
Fire threatens guild hall : Oh heavens the humiliation of the givernment.
I mean even in the retrospective dicumentaries the entire viewpoint is completely out of whack. meanwhile they say people are irrational for carrying setimental goods. sigh...
Also, I would like to meet the genius who thought the best material to make chimneys out of was wood.
That being said, I have found that the old British architecture was a very strong fire magnet. In my area, there were a ton of buildings before the British era and After the British era, but curiously British era buildings are very flammable for some reason. I don't know what it is, but even other buildings made of the same materials are not that fire prone. There must be some reason - some materials they used, how they used it, architecture or something that makes them particularly prone to fires.
Something uplifting at 3:50 am on a Sunday morning... What is wrong with me??
I'm up at 5:32 am, watching this...lol. I love history.
You're getting educated with this history documentary. It's uplifting to learn!
This was almost as bad as that one time when I burned my finger on the stove
Ouch are you okay now, did it hurt badly
Christopher Wrenn designed William and Mary College here in Williamsburg Virginia a it has been in continuous use since it opened.
Why are there huge sections cut out of this?! This was the documentary that gave me my knowledge of The Great Fire!!
"...huge sections..."?
There are a couple of minutes cut from the start because of music copyright infringement.
wow, they could make documentaries in 1666, very cool
yes all footage is original home movies.
It was actually made in 1980 or so I was told.
Yes. And they uploaded them to ThouTube.
@@haroldofcardboard it's actually reconstructions they didn't have cameras in those days.
@@jackwatson3944 r/whoosh
The mishandling of pies caused the fire.
Pies 😃
imagine going down in history for burning down a whole city...
That’s one way of getting rid of all the rats in the city
That's a popular misconception
Rats run too fast. Most mammals are hardwired to flee from the threat of fire.
@@Baltic_Hammer6162 No
@@OutragedPufferfish No? You've never seen wildlife run from a forest or prairie fire?
@@Baltic_Hammer6162 Google "fire of London r@ts myth" and check the Museum of Lond0n (I wanted to share the link but stupid RUclips won't let me)
Who would win?
1666 or the City of London?
One smokey hot boi
"A woman could piss the fire out." - Sir Thomas Bloodworth on The Great Fire of London, 1666.
She was on tv she lived to 267
The fact they allowed the handicapped immigrant to hang knowing there was no window is deeply disturbing. How horrific that they witnessed the fallacy in his “confession” seemingly to save the bakers skin is so dark…all that instead of acknowledging the chance of mistake…
But but who was that person burning in the intro? is that Thomas farriner or Samuel pepys or King Charles II
First thing we learned in high school automechanics is that all organic powders. Are combustible and explosive under pressure
Chimneys made of WOOD (covered in mud)
SERIOUSLY?! What the Hell were they thinking?!
🙄🤦♀️ That would give a fire inspector a heart attack seeing that today!
😅Not to mention make ones insurance payments go thru the roof!
Hindsight is 20/20 though, isn't it? Something had to bring fire inspectors and building codes into existence...