A Day in London, 1666 (Week Before the Fire)

Spend a full day in London, 1666 — from dawn on the packed, house-lined London Bridge to the crush of Cheapside Market, into the city’s new coffeehouses, down to the Thames wharves, through a weaver’s workshop near the old walls, and out into pitch-black streets at nightfall. This is a hot, drought-dry city built almost entirely of timber, still recovering from the Great Plague, living under guild rules, public punishments, and constant fire risk.

Built from Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn’s diaries, court records, parish registers, and pre-Fire street surveys, and reconstructed with modern AI visuals, this hour-by-hour walkthrough shows what everyday life looked like in the week before the Great Fire of London — when nobody knew a bakery on Pudding Lane would erase the medieval city in just days.


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🤖 *AI-Generated Video:* This video uses artificial intelligence to create an educational, documentary-style reconstruction.
📚 *For Information & Storytelling:* Some scenes are condensed, simplified, or recreated for clarity, and may not reflect exact events, visuals, or timelines.
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