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Thomas Faryner and Great Fire of London brown plaque

brown plaque

Thomas Faryner and Great Fire of London brown plaque

Thomas Faryner · King's Baker of Charles II

Inscription

“Near this site stood the shop belonging to Thomas Faryner, the King's Baker, in which the Great Fire of September 1666 began. Presented by the Worshipful Company of Bakers to mark the 500th anniversary of their charter granted by King Henry VII in 1486”

Details

Pudding Lane

EC3R

Erected 1986

Worshipful Company of Bakers

Organisation

People & Places Honored

Thomas Faryner
King's Baker of Charles II
Great Fire of London
fire · (1666)

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Location

Pudding Lane

EC3R

51.509990, -0.085260

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