Yet by dawn London Bridge was burning: an open space on the bridge, separating two groups of buildings, had acted as a firebreak in 1632. He was unimpressed, declaring that 'A woman might piss it out'. With only narrow streets dividing wooden buildings, the fire took hold rapidly, and within an hour the Mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth, had been woken with the news. The family fled across the nearby roofs, leaving only a maid, too scared to run, who soon became the first of the four listed casualties of the fire. At 2.00am on Sunday 2nd September his workman smelled smoke and woke the household.
This was provided at the house of Thomas Farynor, the king's baker in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge.
Thus by September 1666, all that was required was a spark. Drawing of a house made from combustible materials, built before the Great Fire
