More than 13,000 homes were destroyed by the blaze which started in a bakery on Pudding Lane.
The inferno rapidly consumed the city spreading from one timber house to another and ravaged warehouses which contained combustible goods, like oil and tallow.
Owing to a 1633 fire which destroyed a water wheel at London Bridge, water could not be pumped through the city, so basic buckets were used to try and extinguish the flames. To stop the Great Fire, a firebreak was created using gunpowder to blow up houses in the path of the blaze.A total of 13,200 houses were destroyed in the inferno, along with numerous parish churches, and other sites around London were damaged like The Guildhall and The Royal Exchange.
Just six people were officially recorded to have lost their lives, but the Great Fire meant almost 85% of London's population was homeless. Also, the number of deaths is thought to be much higher. It cost £10m to rebuild the capital using stone and brick, when its annual income was only £12,000 a year. And it took 30 years to complete the work.
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