Adrian Tinniswood
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And they decided quite early on that nothing would harm St.
So they put all of their paper, all of their books, all of their pamphlets, they stacked them up for safety in the crypt of St.
And when those timbers fell down into St.
Paul's and then fell through the floor and into the crypt, all of that paper went up and St.
Paul's just blew up, basically.
Well, the monument says, doesn't it, 13,200 houses, 400 streets and courts, most of the livery halls.
It's about five-sixths of the city of London goes.
One chap writes to his brother in Northumberland and says, it is like our fells.
Because all you could see was kind of brick chimney stacks.
Everything else is flat.
It looked like the fells.
It didn't look like the city, he said.
It's incredible, the damage.
And the lasting damage.
What we don't know so much is the damage...
that it caused to people the psychological damage.
So, I mean, for example, for years afterwards, Peeps was having nightmares of fire and falling.