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great fire of london
where did people escape to when the fire was taking place
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ..... this is what Pepys witnessed "Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies, till they some of them burned their wings and fell down". This is what Pepys saw, and here is a general view of the fire from about where Tower Bridge is today .....
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