We had a fantastic morning learning all about the Great Fire of London with Hands on History. Firstly, we started with Mrs Eldridge getting dressed up as a soldier from 1666. Of course we found this hilarious, but were also surprised by the amount of layers they had to wear! We played a game outside using buckets and ping-pong balls to see what it would have been like trying to put out the fire with such limited resources; it was very tricky to keep the “water” in the buckets. We also built our very own miniature Tudor houses and learnt why they were so easily burned down due to the materials they were built from. Our favourite part was either seeing the tools that would have been used to put the fire out— they were very heavy and hard to carry around—or when the lovely Mrs Eldridge got dressed up again, but this time as Samuel Pepys’ wife! A huge thank you to Martin and the Hands on History team for such a brilliant and engaging morning!
