This Boy is in Memmory Put up for the late FIRE of LONDON
Occasion’d by the Sin of Gluttony
1666

The statue marks the farthest place to which the fire of London spread in 1666, and where it stopped (the place from which it started is indicated in the Monument Click for sign's details).

In the statue made of wood and coated with gold above the sign, a chubby boy is shown, indicating the sin of gluttony which, according to the Londoners’ belief, is the cause of the fire.
The statue was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

Another sign taken by the same photographer on the same day is below the sign and it says:
THE BOY AT PYE CORNER
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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A view of the location of the statue and the two signs was taken by the same photographer on the same day Click for a larger image