Adrian Tinniswood
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's an amazing man in the fire.
He was a good man, a good man.
It's the Tuesday, yeah.
And that evening, the Royal Exchange is gone, livery halls have gone, a lot of the city.
But that evening, a young Thomas Tanswell, a schoolboy at Westminster, he looks up into the city, he looks across Lambeth Marsh, and he sees St.
Paul's Cathedral, which is London.
This is the spiritual center of the city, in fact of the country in many ways.
And he sees flames start to lick around St.
Paul's is being repaired, there's scaffolding all over the roof.
Flames catch that scaffolding, that timber,
The timber falls down through the roof of Old St.
Paul's and the building explodes like a firebomb.
It just goes up like a bomb.
That explosion is made much worse because the printers and stationers around Paternostero, around Old St.
Faith's in the basement of St.
Paul's, in the crypt, is their parish church.