Tudor History:- Pudding Lane – 1665

Pudding Lane – Tudor History

The description of  Pudding Lane almost got out of my interest in Tudor miniatures. My research did turn up what I think is a must-see video for anyone working on a 17th century project. The video was made by Pudding Lane Productions, a group of second-year students at De Montfort University, Leister, UK. They used state-of-the-art video game software to reference historic maps in the British Library to create an incredible representation of London before the fire that destroyed the central part of the city in September 1666.

They won the 2013 Off The Map competition at Gamecity, an annual event, in Nottingham, UK.

Unless you are a history buff like me, you may have a misconception as to the type of shopkeepers in Pudding Lane. They were butchers, and the carts that hauled away the entrails were not tightly sealed. Bits and pieces would fall to the cobbles to be kneaded stirred by traffic to a slurry, making them … slippery.

Sorry, maybe that’s more history than you needed.

Susan Downing, with Patrick Owens

Little Morton Hall – The Results of Rich Commoners Showing-Off

Little Morton Hall

I first got interested in the Tudors when I saw Charles Laughton play Henry VIII. What a smarmy villain he was! Then came the architecture and dollhouse miniatures. Through all of the research I have done, one structure stands out as the most improbable: Little Morton Hall

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