Year 2 loved their virtual visit with the historical character, Thomas Farriner, baker to Charles II. He was ‘Conduct of the King’s Bakehouse’, contracted to produce ships biscuit for the navy, who were then fighting the Anglo-Dutch war. The girls were thrilled to hear his first-hand account of the events that started The Great Fire of London in 1666 in his bakery on Pudding Lane and they posed some very interesting questions!
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