New images created by students from De Montfort University in Leicester and the British Library show how London would have looked before the Great Fire of 1666. London before the Great Fire of 1666.

The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to fix the old city's problems. None of these plans were ever adopted. Why?

The Great Fire 1666 exhibition, as it's called ... the first of which will allow you to explore London as it was before the fire. Like a real museum, there will be audio clips peppered around ...

An enormous 18th century map of London which charts the rebirth of the city after it was rebuilt in the wake of the 1666 Great Fire has emerged ... compass and a chain, before the details were ...

The 1666 fire burnt for four days and destroyed 13,200 houses, leaving at least 70,000 of the City of London’s inhabitants ... to mull over the situation. Before long, culinary matters ...

In September 1666 the heart of England's capital, the City of London (now London's financial district), was devastated by fire. Everyone knows the Great Fire of London started in a baker's shop in ...

The Great Fire of London of 1666 needs little introduction ... picked out (blue text), and other buildings that survive from before the Great Fire (red). The obvious place to start is the Monument ...

If you had been in London on September 2, 1666 ... before serving out his apprenticeship at Pudding Lane. That nine-year apprenticeship (unusually long), had ended in 1664, so at the time of the ...

London Bridge was not affected, as a previous fire of 1633 had ... for several decades after 1666 they were allowed to have projecting signs outside just as they had before the Fire.