Great Fire of London general; and more particularly in this business of the fire, laying it all upon him." Pepys was a senior official in the Navy Office by then, and he ascended the Tower of London on Sunday morning to view the fire from a turret. He recorded in his diary that the eastern gale had turned it into a conflagration. It had burned down several churches and, he estimated, 300 houses and reached the riverfront. The houses on London Bridge were burning. He took a boat to inspect the destruction around Pudding Lane at close range and describes a "lamentable" fire, "everybody
Andrew Buchan 2014 Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. In July 2014 Buchan starred alongside Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal in Hugo Blick's eagerly anticipated political thriller "The Honourable Woman". This was broadcast on both BBC2 in the UK and the Sundance channel in the USA. In October 2014 he starred in ITV's "The Great Fire", portraying Thomas Farriner, the baker from Pudding Lane. In 2015 it was announced that Buchan was cast as the lead role in TNT drama pilot "Home" alongside Bethany Joy Lenz. Unfortunately "Home" was not subsequently serialised and remains unaired. On Christmas Day 2016 the lavish dramatisation of Jasper