To complete our geography lesson on Plumstead lets start up at the station end of Victoria Road. Immediately in front of us on the right side was the Osman shop. They were an Indian family who lived on the premises at the back of the shop. They were a very well known popular family. Canon [...]
We have now crossed over the railway line and are standing with our backs to the railway station. We are looking at the purely residential part of Plumstead, which it still is except for very small portions for business and schools today. My father bought our property at the corner of Firfield and Palatine Roads. [...]
Miss Alida Ball talks to the editor of Ward Sixteen News and Views. Part 1 I am going to go back 65 years; remember these are childhood memories quite un-researched, and may be a little blurred by the passage of time. Let us go back to 1924. Starting at Plumstead railway station, the centre of [...]
“Timour Hall. This is the name given in 1878 by a later owner, Mrs Aletta Jacoba Smith (a granddaughter of William Duckitt), to a property on the banks of the Diep River. The present impressive homestead is entirely Victorian in appearance with a Cape Dutch gable surmounting a portico which covers part of the elevated [...]
Opposite the Plumstead Methodist Church was Yudelman’s Store (circa 1905) one of the areas oldest two businesses (The other being Osman’s). This store stocked everything one could imagine – materials, groceries, animal feed, …. Everything was there. Today Yudelman’s Store has become The Village Square, Send to Facebook
