London's burning, London's burning - in Minecraft!

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If you owned a bakery in London in, ooh let's say 1666, and you were in the middle of a roasting hot summer, would you leave your oven on overnight? I wouldn't even leave my oven on now! Though I may have accidentally done that once. But I watched those harrowing Fire Service videos at school in the '80s - I know what's at stake.
Had Thomas Farriner watched those videos, albeit hundreds of years before videos and televisions were invented, London would be very different today. But he didn't, the idiot, and so his Pudding Lane bakery went up in flames, 2nd September 1666, and London went with it. He caused the Great Fire of London!
350 years later the Museum of London is making a big to-do of it, and the to-do includes recreating ye olde London in Minecraft - and then burning it down!
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