Use the slideshow below to show pictures from the story of the famous people involved in The Great Fire of London. Samuel Pepys - he worked for the King, helping to look after the Royal Navy.

Curator Todd Longstaffe-Gowan says there is a "fascination" with lost gardens and that they help people ... London Metropolitan Archives If you were to walk through what is now Kennington ...

More than 10 years before it staged England’s first international cricket Test match in 1880, south London’s Oval ground ... The 7,000 people who attended the first day’s play provided ...

A London plane tree, that is. The first man on the moon is just one in a sequence of American astronauts commemorated along the western side of Kennington ... the second-most famous person of ...

When I was 5 being evacuated from Kennington to Devon and before entering the train a label was tied to my collar. The attendant bent over me and while tying the string said "don't lose this or ...