Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the spot where the fire is said to have started. Climbing its 311 steps offers ...

When the Great Fire of London broke out in 1666, it was so large the smoke could be seen in Oxford. It raged for four days, destroying 80 per cent of the city. Diarist Samuel Pepys wrote that ...

Interesting facts about the Great Fire of London Legend has it that King Charles II, who reigned from 1660 to 1685, was told ...

Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...

Huge flames and plumes of smoke seen bursting from the electricity substation as the fire shuts Heathrow Airport ...

Farewell to one of the last of the City's 1960s office blocks, and the tallest ever demolished. Have you ever noticed the brown tower between the Gherkin and the Cheesegrater? It's called St Helen ...

One of the city's most iconic and most visited tourist destinations, the Tower of London is brimming with ... to those who lost their lives in the Great War. Each of these flowers represented ...

Almost 30,000 ceramic poppies go on display at the Tower of London. Image: Historic Royal Palaces The Tower of London will be flooded with tens of thousands of blood-red poppies later this year ...

But when I saw what he’d written – “The Tower of London was built in 1966 by William the Great” – I decided ... the thick tower walls and fire remind you that this was the place, for ...