miniatyr|Golden Boy av Pye Hjørnet The Golden Boy av Pye Corner er et lite monument på hjørnet av Giltspur Street og Cock Lane i Smithfield, i sentrum av London. Det markerer stedet der den Store Brannen i London i 1666 ble stoppet. Statuen er laget av tre og er dekket med gull. Bygningen hvor den er plassert er en fredet bygning.
Under står følgende inskripsjone:
This Boy is in Memmory put up for the late Fire of LONDON in Occasion'd by the Sin og Gluttony. Den viktigste inskripsjone står om lag 3 meter under gutten, som er skrevet som følger: The boy at Pye Corner was erected to commemorate the staying of the great fire which beginning at Pudding Lane was ascribed to the Sin of Gluttony when not attributed to the papists as on the Monument and the Boy was made prodigiously fat to enforce the moral he was originally built into the front of a public-house Called The Fortune of War Which used to occupy This site and was pulled Down in 1910
'The Fortune of War' was The chief house of call North of the River for Resurrectionists in body snatching days years ago The landlord used to show The room where on benches Round the walls the bodies Were placed labelled With the snatchers' names waiting till the Surgeons at Saint Bartholomew's could run Round and appraise them
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