[00:02.02]London has burned many times across the centuries.
[00:07.89]Its day of judgement revisited again and again.
[00:21.10]All over the Thames with one's face in the wind,
[00:23.97]you were almost burned with a shower of fire drops.
[00:30.61]Above 10,000 houses all in one flame.'
[00:35.20]the noise and crackling and thunder of the impetuous flames.'
[00:39.27]the shrieking of women and children,
[00:41.71]the hurry of people, the fall of towers,
[00:45.19]houses and churches was like a hideous storm
[01:00.64]The Great Fire Of London burned for seven days.
[01:06.12]The ruins resembling the picture of Troy.
[01:21.00]Over 13,000 buildings were destroyed.
[01:23.87]It was the calamity of the age,
[01:27.74]but the smouldering hole at the heart of the city would prove to be a huge inspiration.
[01:34.35]Plans were drawn up to bring a new order of beauty to London.