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Plumstead is a district of south east London located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is located east of Woolwich and south west of Thamesmead. Plumstead is a multicultural area with large Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities, in similarity to local areas such as Woolwich and Thamesmead. Plumstead is the location for a large bus garage built in 1981 on former industrial land and a substantial Church of England parish church dedicated to St Nicholas.
Plumstead is a district in London.
Plumstead may also refer to:
- Plumstead District (Metropolis), former local government district
- Plumstead, Cape Town, suburb in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
- Plumstead, Norfolk, eastern England
- Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Great Plumstead, Norfolk, England
- Little Plumstead, Norfolk, England
Usage examples of "plumstead".
Lady Lufton on the occasion of her first visit to London, and yet the time was not long past when she had thought that rectory house at Plumstead to be by no means insufficient or contemptible.
An orthodox martyr had been caught from the East, and an oily latter-day St Paul, from the other side of the water--to the horror and amazement of Archdeacon Grantly, who had come up all the way from Plumstead to be present on the occasion.
At the close of the season Griselda would return to Plumstead, and Lord Lufton would go--nobody as yet knew where.
CHAPTER XL INTERNECINE It must be conceived that there was some feeling of triumph at Plumstead Episcopi, when the wife of the rector returned home with her daughter, the bride elect of the Lord Dumbello.
But, old and plain as he was, the young people at Plumstead did not hold him in any reverence.
Both Mrs Proudie and the bishop had called at Plumstead since Mrs Grantly had come back from London, and the ladies from Plumstead, of course, returned the visit.
This now had gone so far that Mrs Arabin conceived herself bound in duty to see her sister, and it was then settled in consultation at Plumstead that the archdeacon should call officially at the palace and beg that the rumour might be contradicted.
Paris--Lord Dumbello was forthcoming at Plumstead on the 5th August, and went through his work like a man.
The marriage took place at Plumstead, and on the morning of the day Lord Dumbello posted over from Barchester to the rectory.
We joined a crowd going into a tent and there we saw my other old school acquaintance, Porker Plumstead, sitting mournfully in a corner with a cold collation on his knees.
And, somewhere among the mist around Hampstead, Porker Plumstead is locked in the lavatory with Health and Beauty.
Plunger Plumstead, whose head was sunk, like that of an aged tortoise, into a collar several sizes too large for him, sported an ancient black velvet jacket and a silk scarf.
Richard stood proudly beside Monty, the Labrador, and old Plunger Plumstead was there with an ancient, watery-eyed and evil-looking bull-terrier to whom he might have been closely related.
Conversations between Misses Plumstead and Chinese Lady were generally of the following kind.
Plumstead to live at Littlebath, and it had also happened--most unfortunately--that the embryo Mrs Tickler, in the warmth of her neighbourly regard, had written a friendly line to her friend Griselda Grantly, congratulating her with all the female sincerity on her splendid nuptials with the Lord Dumbello.