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Jan 18, 2023·edited Jan 18, 2023

This poem & saying come to mind when looking at "The Golden Boy of Pye Corner" in London. Most people know that Pudding Lane was where the Great Fire of London started. Few know where it stopped. A rather seedy corner of medieval London, at the corner of Cock Lane and Giltspur Street.

Cock Lane was one of the few places where brothels were legal. Its neighbour Giltspur Street is the place where the Lord Mayor of London stabbed Wat Tyler.

At the corner of these two streets stood ‘The Fortune of War’ pub, an unsavoury drinking hole where during the early 1800’s body-snatched corpses were held until the surgeons at the nearby Saint Bartholomew’s picked them up.

The inscription on the memorial states:

"This Boy is in Memory put up for the late Fire of London

Occasion’d by the Sin of Gluttony."

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