The Fire of London
In Our Time
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The Conflagration in London
Pinesis: By halfway through Sunday morning, we're talking about something that started first at two o'clock and Sunday morning, it's become beyond the scale of anything that already existed. It sounds as though people heard about it quite soon, that Peepes was wakened by his maid servants to say, you know, there's a fire going on just down the road. And that to begin with, it wasn't necessarily any different from any other fire. There are always fires in London. They usually put out quite quickly. We'll come back in a minute. But people are obviously being Murray shifting house. This specific place is not a distinctively different kind of house
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