The fire breaks worked. Samuel Pepys recorded the response of the Lord Mayor to the events of the fire in his diary on September 2nd, 1666. This is a simplified excerpt: I told the King and Duke ...

Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor, wake up ... all the way back in history… all the way back over 350 years ago, to 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London. In those days when people wrote diaries ...