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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Great Fire
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(3–4 Sept. 1666) Fire which devastated London, starting early in the morning in Pudding Lane, in the shop of a baker by the name of Farriner. By the end of the next day some 13,000 houses had been destroyed and 87 churches, including old St Paul's Cathedral, but amazingly only nine people had died.
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