The Great Fire of London—all over again

Its going to get rather fiery down on the River Thames this Sunday (4 September) when the San Franciscan artist David Best is due to set alight his 120-foot long, highly intricate wooden replica of the London skyline in a re-enactment of the Great Fire that broke out in the early hours of 2 September 1666. The blaze began in Pudding Lane and raged for three nights, engulfing the city and destroying more than 13,000 homes. The burning of Bests sculptural replica, located on a barge nea