SOPHIE’S NEWS
Wednesday 5th September 1666
20 pennies
FIRE SPREADING!
Words By; S. Sams
A fire which started in a bakery in Pudding lane on Sunday continues to spread. The wooden houses of the city burnt quickly moving between the closely packed streets.
People are loading
carts with their valuables and fleeing their homes. Those who do not have carts
are burying their possessions in their gardens to protect them.
Samuel Pepys has told the king that people are not helping to put the fire out. Sir Thomas Bloodworth, the Lord Mayor has been slow to help. Mr Pepys said;
People do all the world over cry out of the simplicity of my
Lord Mayor in general, and more particularly in this business of the fire.
Duke James the king’ brother is in charge of stopping the fire
and even the King is out helping. People have fled the city, some by boat others
on foot but food and shelter are now in short supply beyond the walls.
Mr Pepys has said it is “the saddest sight of desolation
that I ever saw.”
This was my daughter Sophie's (aged 6) homework this week.
Well done Sophie
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