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English: View of The Old Mill public house and Plumstead Manor School, both overlooking Plumstead Common, Plumstead, Royal Borough of Greenwich, South East London. Date 1 August 2015, 09:06:32
Plumstead has been settled since ancient times, and London's earliest timber structure has been found here. During the excavation of a peat bog near Belmarsh Prison in 2009, an ancient timber trackway, radiocarbon dated to be nearly 6,000 years old, was discovered by archaeologists. [2]
Nearby is Plumstead Manor School. On the southwest corner of the common stands the former Prince of Wales pub. Plumstead Common is the venue for the Plumstead Make Merry event, which is the longest-running community festival in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and is run on an voluntary basis by a group of people who are passionate about the ...
English: Anonymous watercolour of Plumstead Road around 1845. Part of a a temporary exhibition about Plumstead in Greenwich Heritage Centre, Woolwich, south east London, UK. Part of a a temporary exhibition about Plumstead in Greenwich Heritage Centre, Woolwich, south east London, UK.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
location of Manor Ground, Plumstead (1914) In 1888, after flooding to the Sportsman Ground, the club moved to the adjoining Manor Field which was soon renamed Manor Ground. The pitch was notoriously muddy and upon its southern border lay the Ridgeway containing the Southern Outfall Sewer that ended at Crossness Pumping Station . [ 4 ]
The red brick tower was completed in 1664. On 11 February 1907 an explosion in a magazine in the Chemical Research Department of the Woolwich Arsenal on Plumstead Marshes caused a further explosion of a gasometer causing much damage to surrounding property in Woolwich and Plumstead, including the Church.
Winn's Common is a public open space in Plumstead in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, England. History ... An old hut at the North End of the common, adjacent to Kings ...