Great Fire of London Pearson. Another monument marks the spot where the fire stopped: the Golden Boy of Pye Corner in Smithfield. According to the inscription, it was evidence of God's wrath on the City of London for the sin of gluttony that the fire started at Pudding Lane and stopped at Pye Corner. The Great Plague epidemic of 1665 is believed to have killed a sixth of London's inhabitants, or 80,000 people, and it is sometimes suggested that the fire saved lives in the long run by burning down so much unsanitary housing with their rats and their fleas which transmitted the plague,
Angel Street, London Angel Street, London Angel Street, once Angell Street, is a short street in the City of London that runs between King Edward Street in the west and St. Martin's Le Grand in the east. The street is recorded on John Ogilby and William Morgan's "Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676" which shows the plan of London after its rebuilding following the Great Fire of London in 1666. Today the street is made up on the north side of the former post office buildings of 1 St Martin's Le Grand and on the south side of the