STEETON children have created a model version of the London of yesteryear.
They built Tudor houses to scale and laid them out as they would have been in the decades before the Great Fire of London.
The year one and two children at Steeton Primary School had been researching the houses as part of their topic on the 1666 fire.
Key stage one coordinator Jim Daft said: “The children then arranged the houses as they would have been during that time.
“They added cobbled streets, carts made of Lego, people made of Play-Doh, the River Thames and origami boats, to really set the scene.”
The Great Fire of London blazed for four days, gutting the medieval City of London, destroying 30,000 houses and 87 parish churches.
It started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane shortly after midnight on September 2 and spread rapidly west, overpowering attempts to create ‘firebreaks’ by destroying houses in the fire’s path.
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