Client - London City Council

Team - Fire Safety Officers

Commission - To explore and recover evidence, aiding in creating a Great Fire of London point of interest. 

The evidence box. 
 

An exciting delivery arrived in our classroom. A box labelled evidence… We wondered what on earth could be inside. We discussed whether we should open it or not… 

We were very careful. Inside was a map, burnt wood and what looked to be a letter.

We noticed the word smelt like fire, and the letter, which we discovered was a diary, discussed a fire near London Bridge…

We wondered what all this meant.

Land for sale in London.

We watched as a sign was drawn. “Land for sale in London”. If we could add anything to London, what would it be? We discussed all of our ideas and designed them, adding them to the blank plot of land. We then wrote a letter to the council, explaining our interest and sent them our designs. We are awaiting their response.

Discoveries on the building site.

We watched as a builder on the empty land dug, preparing the site. His shovel hit something hard. He dusted away more and more mud, revealing what looked like burnt, old, tiles. We discussed together where these could have come from. We remembered a fire was mentioned in the diary entry we found a couple of days before. We decided these must be related…

Back in the classroom, a letter was delivered. It was from a man called Mitch at London City Council. It said…

Hello,

Due to the important history of this site, all work must stop until further investigation.

However, if you are interested, we do need support on our Fire Safety Officer team.

They were established during the Great Fire of London in 1666 and are very important. 
If you are interested, please visit the site next week, Pudding Lane. London. 
 

Yours sincerely, 

Mitch

We felt excited! We wondered if the evidence we had been delivered came from the Great Fire of London?

We decided we would become the new Fire Safety Team. We began by looking at the equipment the previous safety team would have used in 1666, during the Great Fire. Leather buckets, hooks, water pumps, ladders and carts. We spent a while discussing how we thought each piece of equipment would be used. We then used drama to have a go, passing buckets down a long line of people, using hooks to pull down burnt buildings and climbing ladders to rescue people in distress. We then teamed up and created some freeze frames, representing each use of equipment.