Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...
Wren also designed The Monument to The Great Fire of London, which was built close to Pudding Lane to commemorate The Fire and to celebrate the rebuilding of the city. A gallery of images showing ...
The 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London is September 2016, so we're visiting The Monument with David Laird, and taking a trip to the top of the doric column in the City.
What could bring home more immediately the reality of the Great Fire of London of 1666 to a small child than a visit to the Monument, which was erected to memorialise it? This great column still holds ...
An illustration of the Great Fire of London. The west side of St Paul's Cathedral is on fire and people are fleeing from the gates of London with their belongings. The stones of St Paul’s flew ...