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- The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a small late-17th-century monument located on the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane in Smithfield, central London.
- The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a gilded statue of a chubby little boy who is supposed to warn Londoners of the fiery consequences of overeating.
- The Golden Boy Of Pye Corner is located on the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane in the Smithfield area of the City.
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- The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is the other monument to the Great Fire of London – not the one erected by Sir Christopher Wren, but its smaller and less obtrusive...
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- As I was by Cock Lane the other day, just had to take a few photos of “The Golden Boy of Pye Corner”, a small monument located on the corner with Giltspur...
- The golden boy of Pye Corner on the corner Giltspur street and Cock lane which marks where the great fire of London finished. How did Cock lane get its name?
- Still, research undertaken by the excellent London history blog Flickering Lamps shows an engraving of Pye Corner from 1791 with the boy in place.
- Originally known as ‘The Fat Boy’, the monument was gilded some time in the 1800s and was subsequently known as the ‘Golden Boy of Pye Corner’.
- Golden Boy of Pye Corner. More Photos. This gilded statue of a cherub, set into the side of a building, marks the furthest extent of the Great Fire of London in 1666.
- The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is the golden statue of a boy, which commemorates the end of the fire at 1666 in London.
- Golden Boy Of Pye Corner. 12. The Oldest Structure in London. You may have passed it a thousand times, an original Egyptian obelisk.
