Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the spot where the fire is said to have started. Climbing its 311 steps offers ...

Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...

Not since the great fire of London have the effects of a blaze reverberated so widely through the capital's highest echelons ...

In 1665, one year before the Great Fire of London, Newport was already a thriving market town with narrow streets filled by homes mostly made of wood. Tragedy struck on the afternoon of Friday ...

It was then destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, at which point the old structure was razed in favor of the new St Paul’s, which still stands today. Astonishingly, it was left ...

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. The 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London is September 2016, so we're visiting The Monument with David Laird ...

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London's Heathrow Airport​, one of the busiest airports in the world, was shut down by a power outage caused by a fire at an ...

LONDON (AP) — A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub to shut down for roughly 18 hours, causing widespread ...