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Incidentally, I forgot to mention in my other post in this thread that
there was also a big fire south of the river shortly (ie a few years)
after the Great Fire.

Fires were a regular feature of the time, which is partly why nobody took
too much notice at the start of the Great Fire. The buildings at the North
end of London Bridge had been destroyed by an earlier fire and the fire
break that created probably stopped the Great Fire from crossing the river.

Colin Bignell