Stone plaque № 51565

London, England, United Kingdom

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner The Boy at Pye Corner was erected to commemorate the staying of the Great Fire which beginning at Pudding Lane was ascribed to the sin of gluttony when not attributed to the papists as on the monument and the boy was made prodigiously fat to enforce the moral. He was ori

ginally built into the front of a public house called 'The Fortune of War' which used to occupy this site and was torn down in 1910. The Fortune of War was the chief house of call north of the river f

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