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Above: The area affected by the fire, overlaid on a map showing the city walls, the 8 city gates, and locations of Pudding Lane, Pepys home, London Bridge, St Pauls Cathedral, the Tower of London and Moorfields (image via Wikimedia Commons).
Useful Websites
Pepys Diary for September 1666 |
Other Resources
EC3R 8BQ – modern postcode of Pudding Lane [MAP].
How we converted old money to new –
Step 1: use the National Archives old money converter to get the equivalent figure for 2005 (the tool is no longer updated).
Step 2: use this inflation converter to bring the figures up-to-date.