Sixty-five years ago on Sunday, from George Orwell (orwelldiaries)'s diaries...

Very heavy raid last night, probably the heaviest in many months, so far as London is concerned…Bomb in Lord’s cricket ground (school-boys having their exercise at the nets as usual this morning, a few yards from the crater) and another in St. John’s Wood churchyard. This one ( Read more... )

Saturday 30 June, 1666
Samuel Pepys used a parenthetical aside to slam the Lord Mayor. His diary records that Sir Thomas Bludworth is "a silly man, I think".

Sunday 2 September, 1666
Bludworth is woken and told of the start of the Great Fire. He insists "a woman might piss it out". Pepys proven right.