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- Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Frean Street
- Replies: 12
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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 ...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:32 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Frean Street
- Replies: 12
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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.
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:13 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Frean Street
- Replies: 12
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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 ...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:08 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Frean Street
- Replies: 12
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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!
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:05 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: DO YOU REMEMBER THESE?
- Replies: 148
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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?
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:12 am
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Frean Street
- Replies: 12
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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...