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by DaPi
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:19 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Frean Street
Replies: 12
Views: 22770

Re: Frean Street

Sadly the bombsites are what stick in my mind. There are excellent maps here which give house by house details of the damage: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bomb-damage-maps-reveal-londons-world-war-ii-devastation In the highly zoomed-in map I have marked the wrecked school (the ...
by DaPi
Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:32 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Frean Street
Replies: 12
Views: 22770

Re: Frean Street

kiwi wrote:Frean Street looking towards Marine Street and (Old) Jamaica Road Bermondsey 1950’s. X.png


This would be looking across the same bomb-site as in the "Albins Funerals" photo.
by DaPi
Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:13 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Frean Street
Replies: 12
Views: 22770

Re: Frean Street

Hi DaPi. I am not sure of this, so I could be barking up the wrong tree, but I think the trees are either a Plane or a Mountain Ash, members of the Sycamore family. In the 1920s Bermondsey Borough Council planted a lot of these trees as part of their scheme to beautify the Borough. Be tree-mendous ...
by DaPi
Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:08 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Frean Street
Replies: 12
Views: 22770

Re: Frean Street

Does anyone have an idea what the trees in Frean St. were in the first post? At least the ones at the church end had leaves like acacia, but my "I spy" identification book didn't confirm that at the time. This would be the resolution of a 65-year old enquiry!
by DaPi
Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:05 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: DO YOU REMEMBER THESE?
Replies: 148
Views: 205128

Re: DO YOU REMEMBER THESE?

I'm not sure I understand this thread. I left in the 1960's. Isn't Bermondsey still like that? :) :D
by DaPi
Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:12 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Frean Street
Replies: 12
Views: 22770

Re: Frean Street

A few comments on the photos: Tommy Steele signing autographs (fosney & kiwi): the fenced-off area at the end of the RH side was the site of a school destroyed by bombing. The bomb-site was used as a "playground" (of course) and finally it was levelled and covered with cinders(!) - loc...

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