1.Ranulf Flambard
The Tower's first prisoner was also its first escapee. Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham and political right-hand man to William Rufus (King of England 1087-1100), was arrested when Henry I succeeded Rufus and imprisoned in the newly completed keep of the Tower. He plied his guards with drink, rendering them unconscious, and escaped by letting a rope down from a window.
2.Sir John Oldcastle
A leader of the Lollards, the followers of the religious reformer John Wyclif, Oldcastle escaped from the Tower in 1413. Once free, he put himself at the head of a Lollard uprising against Henry V, whose friend he had once been, but the king had been forewarned and the Lollards who gathered in St Giles's Fields were easily dispersed. Oldcastle escaped once again. On the run for nearly four years, he was eventually recaptured in Wales in 1417. Brought back to London, he was executed in St Giles's Field on 14 December. Shakespeare almost certainly based the character of Falstaff on him and it has been argued that Oldcastle's actual name was used in performances of Henry IV until his descendants protested and Falstaff's was substituted.
3.Father John Gerard
A Jesuit priest who was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower in 1597, Father Gerard nonetheless managed to escape with the help of Catholic friends on the outside. Using orange juice as a kind of invisible ink, he was able to communicate secretly with them and succeeded in gaining the sympathy and assistance of one of his warders. On the night of 4 October a rope was strung across the moat between the Cradle Tower in which Gerard was held and Tower Wharf. Although Gerard's hands were still disabled from the torture he had endured, he managed to use the rope to leave his prison and he was transported by boat along the Thames to safety. One of those who harboured the runaway was the future Gunpowder Plotter, Robert Catesby, and Gerard himself was implicated in that conspiracy. Despite all the trials and tribulations of his life, Gerard survived until 1637, dying in Rome at the age of seventy-two.
4. Lord Nithsdale
A Jacobite who was imprisoned in the Tower in 1716, he was helped by his wife to escape from the King's House, dressed as her maid, on the night before his execution. Lady Nithsdale later wrote of how 'the guards opened the door, and I went downstairs with him, still conjouring him to make all possible dispatch. As soon as he had cleared the door I made him walk before me, for fear the sentinel should take notice of his walk ...' When her husband had left the King's House, Lady Nithsdale returned to his prison cell and, in order to fool the guards in the adjoining room and give him time to get well away, continued to hold an imaginary conversation with him. Finally, she reported, 'I opened the door and stood half in it, that those in the outward chamber might hear what I said, but held it so close that they could not look in. I bade my lord formal farewell ...' Nithsdale made good his escape. His wife was arrested but soon pardoned and followed him abroad. The two lived the rest of their lives together (some thirty years) in Italy.
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1.The Great Fire, 1212
A fire broke out in the city on the night of 11 July 1212 in which many people died. City dignitaries met at the Guildhall about a fortnight later and a record of their deliberations and recommendations survives. As well as bemoaning the fire which 'to our greatest dismay, utterly destroyed London Bridge and many other splendid buildings, and sent innumerable men and women to their graves', they suggested ways of preventing such conflagrations in the future. They recommended, among other things, that 'all cook-shops by the Thames should be whitewashed and plastered, inside and out' and that it would be 'advisable to place in front of each house a wooden or stone tub full of water'.
2.Cornhill Fire, 1748
Caused by a maidservant who 'left a candle burning in the shed whilst she was listening to a band performing at the Swan Tavern', the fire raged for ten hours on 25 March in the streets and alleys around Cornhill. More than a hundred buildings, including many of the well-known taverns and coffee-houses in the area were destroyed and a dozen people killed.
3.Albion Mills Fire, 1791
Arguably the mill Blake had in mind when he wrote of 'dark, satanic mills', Albion Mills was a corn mill built at the foot of Blackfriars Bridge by Matthew Boulton, the industrialist, entrepreneur and partner of James Watt. The largest and best-equipped mill of its time, it nonetheless went up in flames on 2 March 1791. Boulton's strong suspicion that the cause of the fire was arson, possibly by a business rival, was never proven and the Albion Mills were not rebuilt.
4.Houses of Parliament Fire, 1834
The fire was started when servants at the Palace of Westminster were instructed to destroy a large number of tally sticks, lengths of wood which were used in an ancient method of accounting. The practice of using the tally sticks was obsolete but thousands of them were littering the palace and it was decided they should be consigned to the furnace. Unfortunately, there were so many that the fire grew out of control, the wooden panelling of the buildings caught light and soon the entire palace was on fire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, Lord Althorp, on arriving at the scene of the fire, is said to have shouted, 'Damn the House of Commons. Let it blaze, but save the Hall'. The dramatic sight of the parliament buildings blazing attracted thousands of spectators, amongst them the artist JMW Turner, who sketched what he saw and later painted two large canvases of the fire lighting up the skies across the Thames.
5.Tooley Street Fire, 1861
The fire started in a riverside warehouse on 23 June and spread to other buildings along the Thames. James Braidwood, the fire chief, was killed during the blaze when a wall collapsed on him. It took two days to bring under control and the ruins continued to smoulder for a fortnight. The scale of the disaster and the vast insurance claims led to a parliamentary enquiry and the establishment of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. A memorial plaque which records Braidwood's heroism can still be seen in Tooley Street.
6.Crystal Palace Fire, 1936
A small fire, possibly caused by faulty electrical wiring, was spotted by the manager of the Crystal Palace, Harry Buckland, who was out walking with his young daughter (whom he had named Chrystal) and his dog on the evening of 30 November 1936. Despite the efforts of Buckland and two night-watchmen, the fire took hold and spread from an area in the central transept to the entire structure. The fire crews that began to arrive could do little to stop it. At the height of the fire eighty-eight fire engines and more than a thousand firemen were fighting the blaze but, by morning, the Crystal Palace was a smouldering ruin of twisted iron and melted glass. The television pioneer John Logie Baird had workshops in the South Tower of the Crystal Palace and lost much of his equipment in the fire.
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