It’s going to get rather fiery down on the River Thames this Sunday (4 September) when the San Franciscan artist David Best is due to set alight his 120-metre long, highly intricate wooden replica of the London skyline in a re-enactment of the Great Fire that broke out in the early hours of 2 September 1666. The blaze began in Pudding Lane and raged for three nights, engulfing the city and destroying more than 13,000 homes. The burning of Best’s sculptural replica, located on a barge near St Paul’s cathedral, is the culmination of the London’s Burning festival, a series of events marking the anniversary of the red hot disaster.