Great Fire of London
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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that occurred in central London from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday 5 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city
The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666. To the left is London Bridge; to the right, the Tower of London. Old St Paul's Cathedral is in the distance, surrounded by the tallest flames.
A panorama of the City of London in 1616 by Claes Visscher. The tenement housing on London Bridge (far right) was a notorious death-trap in case of fire; much would be destroyed in a fire in 1633.
Long View of London from Bankside, a panorama of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647, notable for being rendered all from one viewpoint
King Charles II
Holborn
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Holborn is an area in central London, that covers the southeastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.
Staple Inn, near Chancery Lane tube station, the last of the Inns of Chancery
Passage North side of Holborn, 1897 by Philip Norman
Peter Pan statue at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Former Pearl Assurance Company building, now the Rosewood London