Linked to our history topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ Year 1 class enjoyed making bread in the same traditional was as they would have done in the bakery owned by the King’s baker, Thomas Farriner on Pudding lane in 1666.

The Great Fire began in a bakery owned by the King’s baker, Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane on September 2nd 1666, just 202 feet from the site of The Monument today. The bakery ovens were not properly extinguished, and the heat created sparks, which set alight Thomas’s wooden home.