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Street Parties, Gatherings & Special Events for the Plumstead/Woolwich Areas
This photo is at the junction of
Bramblebury Road / Durham Rise taken at a street
party at the end of the 1st World War. The
ladies name at the forefront of the picture is
Florence Bingham and the lady next to her is
Lilian Crawford. I got this info from Flo ' s
daughter who is 82 years old now. But I consider
the info reliable.
This photo shows a street party
group on the corner (by the shop was the
junction) of Gunning St / Garibaldi St.
Plumstead.
This photo was taken at the junction
of Hartville Road / Garibaldi St, Plumstead.
See the story: Growing up in the prefab village, Winn's Common
See the story: Growing up in the prefab village, Winn's Common
See the story: Growing up in the prefab village, Winn's Common Coronation day fancy dress
street in Ann Street, Plumstead. Dorothy
Lewis is 4th from the left. 
Dorothy Lewis (nee Wilson) with her
brother Brian as the King and Queen at the
Ann Street Coronation fancy dress
celebration (this and the photo above it are
from Dorothy Lewis)
The Wilson family lived at 105 Plumstead Road, SE 18, at this time. Brian William Wilson died on 7th January 2024 He went to Conway junior school and then
onto the Gordon School at Woolwich
We were eight of us children. Patricia
was oldest died 2013, then in date order of
birth Brian. Dorothy, Stephen, Linda, Susan,
Kenneth and Peter the youngest.
Unfortunately Stephen passed in 2018
Susan in 2021. The rest are hanging on!
See story: Joyce Foster Remembers (now Hyne)
My grandparents lived in Ancona Rd; Plumstead (Orchard Rd). Their house was an old large Victorian house. It covered three floors including a cellar. During the war the family would use the cellar to shelter from the air raids as you could climb under the house from the celler and climb back up to the front room. My house was on the left of the picture where the tables were just out of shot. The very end of the road came under Welling - Kent. There was a line which went across the road and the pavement to divide the two districts. The Plumstead end had a gravel road and the welling end had tarmac (very odd) wonder if it is still like it? My mother and her sister went to Conway Rd School. I'm looking for old photo's of Plumstead High Street, circa 1900 era, as my great grand parents had a shop along there, but no one has any photo's of it or of this part of the High St. It was a sweet shop and their surname was Austin Helen Jones Can anyone help here? If so, please contact Pete.
V.E. Pary in Hartington
Road, Gosport.
Derek says his Uncle Dennis BOWDEN is the third in from left front row with the school cap (Conway). Do not know any of the others. His grandfather lived there before moving to Piedmont Road.
This group from the Tramps
Supper features (boys left to right) Mike
Scotting, Harry Parker, Brian Willoughby,
Barry Bignell and John Bennett but for the
life of me I can’t remember who the girls
were……….isn’t that terrible? Photo: Brian
Willoughby
These photos (below) were taken 6th June at the Queens Coronation party in the Waverly School building (now demolished). I am in my mothers arms in each photo.
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