Pudding Lane Roſe Lane, Rotherlane. Rother (Pudding) Lane. Formerly part of Rothersgate (alley), it was named after a watergate located there; suggesting river access for cattle. Pudding Lane Pudding Lane is a small street in London widely known as the location of Thomas Farriner's bakery where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It is off Eastcheap, near London Bridge and the Monument, in the historic City of London. The site of Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane is within the roadway of Monument Street (created 1886-7), on the east side of Pudding Lane. The oven and the small yard where Farriner
Great Fire of New York (1776) Great Fire of New York (1776) The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. It broke out in the early days of the military occupation of the city by British forces during the American Revolutionary War. The fire destroyed about one third of the city, while some unaffected parts of the city were plundered. Many people believed or assumed that one or