{"id":11439,"date":"2024-09-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2024-08-04T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T15:50:24","slug":"344-today-the-great-fire-and-the-initial-ignition-of-the-great-fire-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/344-today-the-great-fire-and-the-initial-ignition-of-the-great-fire-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"344: Today: The Great Fire and the Initial Ignition of the Great Fire of London"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11439\" class=\"elementor elementor-11439\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-619397a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"619397a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a2032ba\" data-id=\"a2032ba\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d49511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d49511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The fire started after midnight on September 2nd in London, so if you&#8217;re in the United States like I am then you might see this minisode release on September 1st due to time zones.<\/em><\/p><p>BOATS TODAY (SEPT 2, 2024) \u2014 The Great Fire of London started exactly 358 years ago today, so we&#8217;ll learn how well the TV miniseries called <em>The Great Fire<\/em> shows the way it all started.<\/p><p>Until next time, here&#8217;s where you can continue the story.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6ee3a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"d6ee3a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=LEFE8179541708\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c638c1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c638c1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/links.boatspodcast.com\/344movie0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch it now: Find where <em>The Great Fire<\/em> is streaming<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2af3c22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"2af3c22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-008e93b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"008e93b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Did you enjoy this episode? 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Expect errors. Reference use only.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d66e2a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d66e2a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>September 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 1666. London, England.<\/h2><p>About 24 minutes into the first episode of the series, it\u2019s nighttime we\u2019re in the city with the typical Tudor style architecture you\u2019d expect to see in 1600s London. In the center of the frame, we can see a man walking to one of the buildings. He\u2019s wearing khaki-colored pants, a blue coat, and a wide brimmed hat. After a moment, the camera cuts closer in as the man takes off his hat to enter the building.<\/p><p>The camera cuts to inside now as we see him closing the door behind him. Now that he\u2019s inside, we can see his face easier now to recognize him as Thomas Farriner.<\/p><p>A young woman is inside, asking him how it went. It sounds like he has bad news. Holding a piece of paper, he says they won\u2019t take the Navy contract away, and they won\u2019t pay what\u2019s owed. Then, as quickly as he entered the room, he\u2019s on his way back out. He has to go talk to someone about this.<\/p><p>Before he walks out the door again, she asks if he wants her to rake out the ovens. He says no, it\u2019s still early, and he\u2019ll do it later. She shrugs, saying she can do it before she goes to sleep, but he makes no indication of hearing that as the door closes behind him.<\/p><p>Alone in the room now, she stares after him for a moment before returning to her tasks at the oven. Using a rag to grasp the metal handle, she opens the door on one of the ovens revealing something cooking in the flames inside. She grabs the long handle next to the oven and pulls what looks like a pie that was baking in the oven out and places it on the table.<\/p><p>\u201cHannah!\u201d<\/p><p>Someone off the screen says that name, letting us know the woman is Hannah Farriner. She\u2019s played by Polly Dartford in the series.<\/p><p>Hannah walks off the screen, and the camera stays still to show us that she left the oven door open. As the camera slowly zooms into a couple flames dancing happily in the oven, there\u2019s a pop and a tiny spark flies out of the open door. A close-up camera shot of the building\u2019s wooden floor shows the spark lands amongst a few scattered pieces of hay. As it does, the spark dissipates into a tiny flame that eagerly eats up the hay underneath it.<\/p><p>The camera cuts to where Hannah is, now, and we can see who called her off screen a moment ago. It\u2019s a little girl, and Hannah climbs into bed with her in a sweet moment between what I\u2019m assuming are sisters. By the way, it\u2019s not mentioned here in the show, but the younger girl is named Mary. She\u2019s played by Trixiebell Harrowell in the series.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, though, the camera cuts back to the flame and we can see it wasn\u2019t happy with just the hay directly underneath it. What was a single flame is now a little larger as it seems to have found a little larger clump of hay to feed on. Oh, look at that, there\u2019s more hay off to the right side of the camera\u2019s shot, too, so as the camera pans over we can see the flames following the hay\u2019s path\u2014the flames are growing larger as they have more fuel.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, Hannah is oblivious to the fire below as she sings a lullaby to Mary. Before long, Mary\u2019s eyes close as she drifts off to sleep. Hannah stops her lullaby, but just lies with Mary for a bit in the calmness of the night.<\/p><p>At this point, the show cuts away from Hannah and Mary to follow where Thomas went. Whatever he planned on doing when he left Hannah a moment ago, it looks like he\u2019s decided not to do it because once he sees Charles Dance\u2019s character, Lord Denton, he hides behind a nearby building.<\/p><p>Looking on for a moment from behind cover, Thomas seems to make a decision as he looks at the paper in his hand. Looking dejected, he starts going back in the direction he came from. A quick cut to inside and we can see Hannah has fallen asleep next to Mary on the bed.<\/p><p>Back with Thomas, turning the corner to his street, he looks up to see flames coming from one of the windows. It doesn\u2019t look like a huge fire, but the glow from between the wooden slats of the building suggests there\u2019s a lot more inside we can\u2019t see.<\/p><p>Thomas jumps into action, running to the building. Without hesitation, he runs inside the burning building yelling at the top of his lungs, \u201cFire! Hannah! Fire!\u201d<\/p><h2>The true story behind this week\u2019s event depicted in the TV series <em>The Great Fire<\/em><\/h2><p>That sequence ends at about 29 minutes, so overall it\u2019s about five minutes of screen time that you just heard.<\/p><p>Let\u2019s start with the people we see, because that can often give us a good indication of how accurate something is. And in this case, the series centers around Andrew Buchan\u2019s character, Thomas Ferriner. We also see Hannah Ferriner, and little Mary dozing in bed as the first starts.<\/p><p>In the true story, Thomas Ferriner really was the name of the man who owned the bakery where they think the great fire started. \u201cThey think\u201d it\u2019s where the fire started because, well, a lot like we see in the series, it\u2019s not the kind of thing people document until afterward\u2014I mean, when the fire started, they were a little preoccupied trying to put the fire out.<\/p><p>And although the series doesn\u2019t name the street in the segment I described, it correctly identifies the street as Pudding Lane. Something else the series got right was the mention of the Navy. Although we don\u2019t know for sure if the specific issue of some sort of payment not being made is true, we do know that the real Thomas Ferriner provided bread for the Royal Navy. So, it\u2019d make sense that he would be talking about contracts or something of that sort. We just don\u2019t know if he did that in the early morning hours of September 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p><p>The series was also correct to show the bakery downstairs while upstairs being where his family lived.<\/p><p>Something the series got wrong, though, is showing Thomas not in their home\/bakery when the fire started. As the true story goes, Thomas was awoken in his bed by the smoke coming under the door from the bakery downstairs.<\/p><p>He grabbed Hannah, and escaped out the window to avoid going through the flames below just like we see in the series.<\/p><p>What about Mary, though? Well, we don\u2019t know if she was a real person. In fact, the historical record only shows Thomas and his daughter Hannah. It\u2019d stand to reason that Hannah has a mom, but we don\u2019t know who she was. We also don\u2019t know if Thomas had any other children like we see in the series. Just Hannah.<\/p><p>Another thing the series got wrong was to show everyone escaping the bakery. You see, Thomas had a maid. She was too scared to jump out of the second-story window\u2026and sadly, she became the first victim of the fire.<\/p><p>So, with that said, it\u2019s probably not a surprise to find out that we just don\u2019t know if the fire started because Hannah left the oven door open.<\/p><p>Something else we see in the series when the fire starts is to see it spread along dry hay on the ground as a sort of kindling to grow out of control. That\u2019s impossible to verify, of course, but it\u2019s plausible because we do know the fire spread fast.<\/p><p>You see, all those buildings packed into the densely populated area of London were made out of wood. On top of that, there just happened to be some strong winds that helped the fire jump from building to building. People desperately tried to both get it under control as well as get out of the way of the flames.<\/p><p>I didn\u2019t mention him because he\u2019s not in the segment from this day in history, but in the series there\u2019s a character by the name of Samuel Pepys. He\u2019s played by Daniel Mays.<\/p><p>The real Samuel Pepys kept a diary that survived the fire, and as someone who lived through the experience, that diary has helped historians piece together what happened. I\u2019ll include a link to the diary in the show notes if you want to read some of the entries, one of the things he wrote about was how people were throwing their belongings into the River Thames that runs through London in an attempt to save their possessions from the flames\u2026that gives you an idea of the level of chaos that ensued in the flames.<\/p><p>Will the entire city go up in flames? Obviously, we know London still exists today\u2026or does it exist, again? Will they be able to put the flames out, or will it only be extinguished when the flames have nothing left in the city to consume?<\/p><p>It\u2019s amidst these burning questions that I\u2019ll have to leave you for today\u2026because that\u2019s how it really was for the citizens of London on this day back in 1666.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.pepysdiary.com\/diary\/1666\/09\/<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: The fire started after midnight on September 2nd in London, so if you&#8217;re in the United States like I am then you might see this minisode release on September 1st due to time zones. 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