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Pudding Lane

Pudding Lane

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Sep 18, 2026

Half-Arsed History

Half-Arsed History

Week 35: The Origin of Stockholm Syndrome

Sep 18 · 1 Mention

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Riley KnightHOST
1:18
Certainly a fascinating story, even if it isn't a very amusing one.
Riley KnightHOST
1:22
The fire began on the 2nd of September, 1666, with the spread of a conflagration from a bakery in Pudding Lane...
Riley KnightHOST
1:32
This fire spread across much of the old city of London and destroyed more or less everything in its wake.
Riley KnightHOST
1:39
It burnt for days.
Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories

Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories

Mother Goose in Prose-L. Frank Baum

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
4:25
On the title page was the picture of a goose with a very long neck and a mouth wide open, and below this, Printed by T.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
4:33
Fleet at his printing house in Pudding Lane, 1719.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
4:37
Price, two coppers.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
4:40
Mr. William A. Wheeler, the editor of Hurd and Houghton's elaborate edition of Mother Goose, 1870, reiterated this assertion, and the writer in the Boston Transcript of June 17, 1864 says, Fleet's book was partly a reprint of an English collection of songs, Barclays, and the new title was doubtless a compliment by the printer to his mother-in-law Goose for her contributions.

Unknown podcast

Culloden: The Last Battle that Shattered Highland Identity

Sep 12 · 1 Mention

speaker_1UNKNOWN
11:39
And then there's the fire.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
11:40
Starting in a bakery on Pudding Lane, it spread through timber roofs before the wind turned against it, turning London into ash for days.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
11:49
Some accounts claim the Tower of London helped create an early firebreak using gunpowder to raze houses ahead of the flame.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
11:57
It's a detail that shows how even in crisis people were innovating.

Unknown podcast

The Great Fire of London: How a 1666 Blaze Reshaped the Capital

Sep 12 · 1 Mention

speaker_2UNKNOWN
0:56
In fact, it set off changes that ripple to this day.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
1:00
The fire started at half past midnight on Sunday the second of September 1666 inside Thomas Farriner’s bakery on Pudding Lane.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
1:08
By dawn, flames had leapt across timber houses as if a beast had broken loose.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
1:13
The main cause is still debated, but the prevailing view is that a spark ignited by faulty ovens spread through cramped streets of timber, and that a sudden easterly wind fanned it into a firestorm.

Unknown podcast

Burning Lives: The Great Fire’s Forgotten Victims and Tudor Marriages

Sep 12 · 1 Mention

speaker_1UNKNOWN
0:43
In this episode, we peel back the soot-laden streets of 1666 London to uncover the hidden lives destroyed by the Great Fire before turning the lens to Tudor intrigue when Henry VIII's choice of Anne of Cleves reshaped a kingdom.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
0:58
When we talk about the Great Fire, we usually picture flames dancing in Pudding Lane and Christopher Wren rising from the ashes.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
1:06
But a fire that spanned three days actually swallowed most of the medieval city and left thousands homeless.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
1:13
The chaos it produced reached far beyond brick and timber, spilling into social networks and economic strata that often get eclipsed by grand architectural narratives.

Unknown podcast

London’s 1600‑1690 Turmoil: From Elizabeth to the Glorious Revolution

Sep 11 · 2 Mentions

speaker_2UNKNOWN
4:28
But joy turns to fear as the Great Plague arrives in 1665, claiming about a quarter of London's population before it leaves.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
4:37
You watch friends die at the corner of Pudding Lane, hear bells tolling with an urgency that had never been felt before.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
4:44
Hospitals are set up overnight.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
4:46
People begin to live within their own rooms because stepping into another street could mean death.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
4:53
And if you think disease was your worst enemy, in 1666, a conflagration erupts at Pudding Lane and quickly spreads across the city.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
5:02
Imagine your entire street burned in minutes.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
5:04
All that remains are blackened bricks and ash.

Unknown podcast

The Great Fire of London: Four Days That Rebuilt a Capital

Sep 11 · 2 Mentions

speaker_1HOST
0:43
Today, we'll separate the facts from the myth about London's great blaze and see what a single fire did to reshape an entire capital.
speaker_1HOST
0:51
Imagine a cramped bakery on Pudding Lane, the narrowest street by the Thames, where Thomas Farriner, he's not some saintly figure, but an ordinary baker, had his ovens crackling late into the night of September second.
speaker_1HOST
1:05
In the early hours, the fire sparked and quickly licked at the timber beams surrounding his shop, and by the time he woke, he found flames already leaping towards the river.
speaker_1HOST
1:15
The cause was never definitively proven.
speaker_1HOST
2:00
When he saw the fire's rapid advance, he hesitated to order the creation of firebreaks, a process that involved demolishing houses on the fire's path.
speaker_1HOST
2:10
Contemporary reports suggest that this delay let the flames grow too large for any early demolition plan to contain.
speaker_1HOST
2:18
Late that evening, after a few hours of debate and panic, Bloodworth finally gave the green light to clear buildings between Pudding Lane and Fleet Street.
speaker_1HOST
2:27
But the wind had already turned the fire into a storm that even the new demolitions could not stem.

Unknown podcast

Great Fire of London: The Forgotten Victims

Sep 11 · 1 Mention

speaker_1UNKNOWN
0:28
Today, we're looking at the Great Fire of London's forgotten victims and what their struggle reveals about social injustice after a disaster.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
0:37
The fire broke out at a baker's shop on Pudding Lane just after midnight on Sunday, September 2nd 1666.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
0:45
Within an hour, the flames had licked the narrow timber-laden streets of the old city, turning houses into charred ruin like a hungry beast devouring its own prey.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
0:55
Yet the most celebrated narrative of Lord Mayor Bloodworth rallying his council and King Charles standing beside the smoke only masks how thousands of households, many lacking any legal title to their homes or insurance records, were left roofless amid soot-blackened towers.
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

556 – Lanterns, Onslaught, and Coyote Vs. Acme

Sep 4 · 4 Mentions

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Katey RichHOST
2:20
But before we do any of that, you have to let me tell you that this is the week of Wednesday, September 2nd.
Katey RichHOST
2:24
That is the day that in 1666, the Great Fire of London began at 2 a.m. on a baker shop called Pudding Lane.
Katey RichHOST
2:30
Not true.
Katey RichHOST
2:30
No, it was on Pudding Lane, not called Pudding Lane.
Katey RichHOST
2:33
Pudding Lane.
Katey RichHOST
2:34
It destroyed 80% of London.
Katey RichHOST
2:35
That's crazy.
Katey RichHOST
3:03
But it's set in like.
London Walks

London Walks

The Worst Day in London’s History

Sep 3 · 1 Mention

David TuckerHOST
0:40
The fire had started two days earlier.
David TuckerHOST
0:43
One o'clock in the morning, September 2nd, Thomas Ferner's Bakery in Pudding Lane.
David TuckerHOST
0:50
And by September 4th, it had been burning for more than 48 hours.
David TuckerHOST
0:55
Think about that.

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