Great Fire of London both recorded the events and their own reactions day by day, and made great efforts to keep themselves informed of what was happening all over the City and beyond. After two rainy summers in 1664 and 1665, London had lain under an exceptional drought since November 1665, and the wooden buildings were tinder-dry after the long hot summer of 1666. A fire broke out at Thomas Farriner's bakery in Pudding Lane a little after midnight on Sunday 2 September. The family was trapped upstairs but managed to climb from an upstairs window to the house next door, except for a
Angel Street, London headquarters of British Telecom. 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