The Great Fire of London (UEB Uncontracted)
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- Synopsis
- This page shows an image of some Tudor houses on fire. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is the front of a house in the centre of the page and part of the ends of two houses to the left and right. They are typical half-timbered Tudor houses made with vertical, horizontal and some diagonal timbers. The house on the left had three floors. The ground floor in the bottom left of the page has a window with flames coming out of it. The middle floor has a window on the left only partly shown. The fire inside the building can be found. To the right most of this part of the building has burnt away. Most of the top floor has burnt away. There are just a few timbers left. The roof has all has burnt away apart from a few timbers. The house in the middle of the page has three floors. The ground floor in the bottom centre of the page has a door with a window to the left and right. It has not yet caught fire. The middle floor in the centre of the page has two larger windows to the left and right. The window to the left shows a fire inside and the window to the right has flames coming out. It has a bigger floor area so it sticks out slightly on the left and right from the ground floor. The top floor has three smaller square windows. The window to the right and the wall around it has burnt away. There are huge flames going up into the dark sky here. Some of the wall to the left has burnt away as well. The window to the left and the middle window show the rooms are on fire inside. It has a bigger floor area again so it sticks out slightly on the left and right from the middle floor. Only the middle section of the tiled roof at the top of the house remains. To the left and right, charred roof timbers can be found. This house is taller than the one on the left. The house on the right has two floors. The ground floor in the bottom right of the page has a large square window. It shows the room inside is on fire. The top floor had two smaller windows. The windows and the wall around them are badly burnt. To the left a third window, (which cannot be found) has flames coming out and reaching towards the middle house. To the left it has a bigger floor area so it sticks out slightly on the left from the ground floor. Up and to the left and right, charred roof timbers can be found, these are all that is left of the roof. Huge flames shoot up into the sky from the top floor and roof. This house is the smallest of three houses. Tudor houses were made from timber beams, and wattle and daub which is a woven lattice of wooden sticks covered with plaster and pitch. These are all very inflammable material. The content of the houses was also flammable - straw, tallow, pitch and firewood. The houses were built close together and got closer together the higher they got. When a small fire accidently started in a bakehouse in Pudding Lane, it was inevitable it would spread rapidly.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- RNIB Bookshare
- Date of Addition:
- 08/04/16
- Copyrighted By:
- RNIB Bookshare
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.