Fly through Pudding Street as it was just before the fire started that burned down St. Sepulchre. That’s the fire that destroyed so many records of Roger Williams’s day. This street is about a 20 minute walk from where HH was arrested and a 45 minute walk to the area where Roger Williams grew up in London.
“Six students from De Montfort University have created a stellar 3D representation of 17th century London, as it existed before The Great Fire of 1666. The three-minute video provides a realistic animation of Tudor London, and particularly a section called Pudding Lane where the fire started. As Londonist notes, “Although most of the buildings are conjectural, the students used a realistic street pattern [taken from historical maps] and even included the hanging signs of genuine inns and businesses” mentioned in diaries from the period.
For their efforts, the De Montfort team was awarded first prize in the Off the Mapcontest, a competition run by The British Library and video game developers GameCity and Crytek.”
View the video here: http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/fly-through-17th-century-london.html
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