Great Fire objects, artworks and documents

Quality images, information and 3D objects of the most important historical artefacts and documents about the Great Fire of London, 1666. Perfect for teachers to use in the classroom!

• Burnt brick
• Leather bucket
• Melted pottery fragments
• Firefighter’s helmet
• Painting: ‘Sir Hugh Wyndham, Judge of the Co...
• Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London, 1666...
• Painting: ‘The Monument from Gracechurch Street’...
• Painting: ‘The Ceremony of Administering the Mayor...
• Proclamation of Charles II, 1666
• Fragment of painted tracery from inside the mediev...
• Modern fire engine
• Modern firefighter’s torch
• Modern firefighting helmet
• Portait of King Charles II
• Map: ‘A plan of the City and Liberties of London a...
• Oak bed, 1620-30
• Melted window glass, 1600s
• Bible box
• Frying pan
• Extract from Samuel Pepys’s diary
• Portrait of Samuel Pepys
• Hearth tax document, August 1666
• Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London 1666R...
• Painting imagining the fire
• Wine bottle, c1650
• Common Council meeting minutes 26 September 1666
• Selection of pages from Robert Hooke’s diary
• Richard Newcourt’s plan for rebuilding London
• Christopher Wren’s design for the St Paul’s Cathed...
• Christopher Wren’s design for the St Paul’s Cathed...
• Christopher Wren’s design for the St Paul’s Cathed...
• First post-fire Common Council meeting minutes
• Printed royal proclamation, 1666
• Act of Common Council, 1667
• Record of donations from Bedfordshire
• Trial record of Robert Hubert
• Letter from a merchant referring to the fire
• Painting: Watercolour of Clifford’s Inn
• Petition by Elizabeth Peacock
• Bostock Toller’s witness statement
• Robert Goddard’s witness statement
• John Morgan’s eyewitness statement
• John Bowler’s eyewitness statement
• Plan of Pudding Lane
• A 17th-century fire being extinguished
• Letter from a merchant describing his losses
• Fire Court hearing of Henry and Rachel Brewster
• Trial record of Edmund and Anne Nunne
• Trial record of Mary Fisher
• Trial record of John Clift
• Trial record of Robert Mason
• List of people in one parish needing aid
• Pudding Lane plaque
• House or tavern sign for the Three Kings
• Leather bottle sign
• Fire court judge’s table at Clifford’s Inn
• Half-finished embroidery, 1661-66
• Collection of glass
• John Evelyn’s rebuilding plan
• Oak truckle bed
• Virginal, 1656
• Candle snuffer
• Dutch account of the Great Fire, 1666
• Spanish account of the Great Fire, 1666
• ‘Rege Sincera’s’ account of the Great Fire, 1667...
• Thomas Vincent’s book, 1667
• Monarchy or No Monarchy, 1651
• Book on an investigation into the fire’s causes
• Additional Rebuilding Act, 1670
• Building regulations order, 8 May 1667
• Royal proclamation, 5 September 1666
• Letter from James Hicks, 4 September 1666
• Letter from Henry Griffith, 18 September 1666
• Painting of The Monument in 1752
• Late 17th century fire engine
• Drawing of St Paul’s Cathedral before the fire
• The London Gazette newspaper, 3-10 September 1666
• Floor tiles found near Pudding Lane
• Strike-a-light
• Bread oven
• Jettied wooden houses
• Burnt padlock
• Leather bucket
• Fire squirt
• Fire hook
• Four oak brackets
• Burnt pottery jug
• German map showing area the fire burned
• Christopher Wren’s rebuilding plan
• The ‘Fat Boy’ of Pie Corner
• Candlestick
• Cresset lamp

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