The plague ravaged London
in 1665 and the next year
a fire started by Thomas Farynor
on Pudding Lane grew to be a
conflagration: The Great Fire
of 1666 meant more for bricks.
Destroyed were 430 acres of city,
13,000 houses, 89 churches and
52 Guild Halls, burned and gone.
King Charles II said no more would
wood be used to build: all must
be masonry, a stone and brick fiat.
Wren ruled and masons tooled
when London was rebuilt.
A booming new and prosperous industry
made lots and lots and lots of brick.
So much brick they stacked them thick
in holds of ships as ballast sailing for
New England from the new London
of olde England, so American masonry
owes its infancy to the Great Fire of 1666,
which ended the Black Death finally.
in 1665 and the next year
a fire started by Thomas Farynor
on Pudding Lane grew to be a
conflagration: The Great Fire
of 1666 meant more for bricks.
Destroyed were 430 acres of city,
13,000 houses, 89 churches and
52 Guild Halls, burned and gone.
King Charles II said no more would
wood be used to build: all must
be masonry, a stone and brick fiat.
Wren ruled and masons tooled
when London was rebuilt.
A booming new and prosperous industry
made lots and lots and lots of brick.
So much brick they stacked them thick
in holds of ships as ballast sailing for
New England from the new London
of olde England, so American masonry
owes its infancy to the Great Fire of 1666,
which ended the Black Death finally.
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