3 positive effects were, As most houses were burnt down as they were made out of straw they re-bulit them in Brick. They made streets wider. They straightened a river I think it was called Fleet street or something
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It cleaned out the Plague, and also cleaned out the hovels that people had to live in so I guess from that point of view they had a fresh start. I suppose that at the time however that was not the uppermost thought in the minds of those who lost homes and loved ones.
most people burned their own houses for the insurance
What on earth makes you think they had insurance then, most people could hardly afford to live....insurance came later . I hardly think anyone in their right mind would burn their house deliberately then
Tudor time of great fire of london
Samuel Peyps wrote a diary of the great fire Samuel Peyps wrote a diary of the great fire
In 1666 AD. From a bakers oven, in Pudding Lane. Pudding Lane still exists. The Monument in London, was erected to memory of the Great Fire of London, by Sir Christopher Wren when he was rebuilding London (St. Paul's Cathedral included), after the Great Fire.
London Fire - 1666 Florence Nightingale birth - 1830
some say the fire of London was a blessing because it killed out all the plague