miniatyr|Golden Boy of Pye Corner Golden Boy of Pye Corner är en liten 1600-tals skulptur i hörnet av Giltspur Street och Cock Lane i distriktet Smithfield i centrum av London. Statyn som tidigare kallades "Fat Boy" (tjock pojke) markerar platsen där den Stora branden i London år 1666 stoppades. Statyn, som är av trä förgylldes på 1800-talet. Under statyn står inskriptionen: This Boy is in Memmory put up for the late Fire of LONDON in Occasion'd by the Sin og Gluttony. Och cirka 3 meter längre ner: 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 Golden Boy var ursprungligen placerad på Puben "The Fortune of War" men när huset revs år 1910 flyttades statyn till den kulturskyddade grannfastigheten.
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