The Excellent Fire of London was a major blaze that brushed up via the main parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666. The fire gutted the middle ages City of London inside the old Roman city wall. It intimidated but did not get to the City of Westminster (today's West End), Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and also the majority of the rural slums. It destroyed 13,200 homes, 87 church churches, St Paul's Sanctuary, and a lot of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have actually destroyed the houses of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.The fire started in a bakeshop shortly after twelve o'clock at night on Sunday, 2 September, and also spread swiftly. Making use of the significant firefighting method of the time, the production of firebreaks using demolition, was critically delayed because of the indecisiveness of the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth. By the time massive demolitions were ordered on Sunday nigh...