Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...

Three short animations exploring The Great Fire of London of 1666 - the causes of The Fire, what happened during The Fire and how the city was rebuilt afterwards. 1. Why did The Great Fire of ...

In 1665, one year before the Great Fire of London, Newport was already a thriving market town with narrow streets filled by homes mostly made of wood. Tragedy struck on the afternoon of Friday ...

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. The 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London is September 2016, so we're visiting The Monument with David Laird ...

Although the Great Fire of London destroyed over 13,000 houses, almost 90 churches and even the mighty St Paul’s Cathedral, a handful of survivors managed to escape the flames and can still be seen to ...

A fire at a nearby substation knocked out the airport's power. At least 1,350 flights were affected, FlightRadar 24 said, and the impact was likely to last several days.

Heathrow executives are defending their response to a fire that shut down Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day.

Read the small print.Credit: Jamie Brown Truly great cities are liberally sprinkled with such signs, inscriptions and carvings. London has thousands of them, each telling a snippet of a story that ...