With their main exit blocked, the only means of escape was through a window and over the roof. It seemed that a fire had started in their bake-house and the blaze had become so well established that thick fumes and orange heat roared up the stairs of their ramshackle house. and 2 a.m., at roughly the same time the fleet had sighted the Dungeness Lighthouse, the Farriner family awoke choking smoke was filling their living quarters. Soon afterwards, the family, like the rest of London, was asleep.īetween 1 a.m. In any case, it was later claimed that there hadn’t been enough fire in the oven to light the candle so a flame was found elsewhere.
There may or may not have been timber for the following week drying close to, or perhaps inside, the oven.
At around midnight, his daughter went downstairs to the bake-house to get a light for a candle. This evening Thomas Farriner kept company with his daughter Hanna, his apprentice son Thomas Farriner, and their maid. he raked through the coals in the oven of his bake-house to subdue the tired fire. Thomas Farriner’s working day was drawing to a close and at 10 p.m. If they had taken this particular route, Thomas Farriner might just have heard the ‘mighty merry’ pair singing cheerfully as their coach skimmed past Pudding Lane. The tenement housing on London Bridge (far right) was a notorious death-trap in case of fire, although much would be destroyed in an earlier fire in 1632. A Panorama of the City of London in 1616 by Claes Visscher.
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