View from the Fire Monument

The Fire Monument is a 61-metre (202ft) stone column commemorating the Great Fire of London - a fire in a bakery which started at a location exactly the distance away from the column as is represented by its height: 61m.

The Great Fire started in a the bakery in Pudding Lane (a street which still exists) shortly after midnight on 2nd September 1666 and spread rapidly through the closely-built wooden houses. The fire raged for three days, destroying more than 13,000 homes as well as the original St. Paul's Cathedral.

You can climb the 311 steps to the top of the column and enjoy the skyline of London from the viewing platform.... or simply enjoy watching the views in your high-definition window now by playing this episode!

Having reached the top, the views showin in this episode are (in order):
1) Looking down on traffic and people in nearby streets (three views),
2) North to the City of London (financial district),
3) South-East towards Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast,
4) South across the Thames (two views),
5) South to the South London skyline,
6) West towards the Millennium Wheel and West End,
7) South-West close-up of Blackfriars Bridge,
8) North-West London skyline (spot the BT Tower),
9) South-East and a closer view towards at Tower Bridge.

For more information on the Great Fire of London and the Fire Monument, this Wikipedia entry is a good starting point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monument

To link directly to a Google satellite map centered on the Fire Monument, follow this link: Fire Monument - and I'll leave it to you to 'drive' Google map from there to get a sense of the location.