Frean Street

[DaPi]

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 if I’m right.

Hi kiwi,
Sorry not to have replied earlier - life got in the way!
The leaves and bark looked just like this: https://www.treeguideuk.co.uk/false-acacia/ my memory says the leaves were not toothed (like the Rowan). I think there were a few spines, but I can't remember the flowers or fruits (if any).

[DaPi]

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.

[DaPi]

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/scie ... evastation

In the highly zoomed-in map I have marked the wrecked school (the space behind the fencing in the Tommy Steele picture) and the total destruction of the houses near Albin's, between Frean St and the (Old) Jamaica Rd.