The Baker's Apprentice

In the small hours of 2 September 1666 a fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. Four days later 13,000 houses and 87 churches were gone. The baker swore his oven was out. The city wanted someone to blame – and got one. Will was the apprentice in the bakery and the last to see to the oven that night. He wrote eight letters to his sister as he walked through the ruins, westward, towards the man who passed sentence. You walk the same way today, with the letters in your hand. At every stop you have to find something that stands there now – an inscription, a memorial tablet, a gateway. Each stop gives a letter, and in the end the name of the man Will tried to save. Will and the letters are made up. The fire, the baker, the verdict and everything you see along the way are real.