The Great Fire of London takes hold A pictorial review of the special effects used to create the ITU TV production

摘要

The Great Fire of London began on the night of 2nd September 1666 during the Stuart reign of King Charles II in a small bakery in Pudding Lane run by Thomas Farynor, baker to the King. As houses were mainly half-timbered at that time with pitch roofs they were dangerously flammable and the fire spread rapidly through hay and feed piles in the yards to warehouses and wharves crammed with timber, coal, oil, tallow hemp and spirits. The citizens threw buckets of water unsuccessfully at the growing inferno and Samuel Pepys, the diarist, described the air which was alight with 'firedrops'or wisps of burning straw and wood, as the sky filled with a 'most horrid, malicious, bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.'