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Plumstead Gardens was created after the Second World War, at around the same period as other public gardens in the area, such as Well Hall Pleasaunce and Bostall Gardens. They all share similar architectural features. Prior to this the land was used for allotment gardens. The park gates retain the crest of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, and it was originally laid out as an ornamental garden with a notable area of hard landscaping comprising a raised terrace at the east end, with an ornate sunken formal garden with central pool, walks and rose beds. The park used to have a permanent park keeper, but after this ceased to be the case in the early 1990s the park suffered neglect and vandalism. The formal ponds were drained and some of the stonework damaged, and this area was later demolished and infilled.

The nearer piledrivers and cranes are where the Crossrail tracks will come out of tunnel for the last time before reaching the terminus of the south branch at Abbey Wood. The viewpoint is on the Church Manorway footbridge, which will be reconstructed to allow four tracks on a widened present railway alignment. The two inner tracks will be Crossrail, so the current North Kent down track (the right-hand one) will be swung over to pass to the right of the emerging new tracks and so avoid a flat junction.

A rectangle of land near Church Manor Way has been used by the council as recreational ground, with a small hedged formal garden within the centre. Though unfortunely not maintained apart from the hedges being cut.

Plumstead Gardens was created after the Second World War, at around the same period as other public gardens in the area, such as Well Hall Pleasaunce and Bostall Gardens. They all share similar architectural features. Prior to this the land was used for allotment gardens. The park gates retain the crest of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, and it was originally laid out as an ornamental garden with a notable area of hard landscaping comprising a raised terrace at the east end, with an ornate sunken formal garden with central pool, walks and rose beds. The park used to have a permanent park keeper, but after this ceased to be the case in the early 1990s the park suffered neglect and vandalism. The formal ponds were drained and some of the stonework damaged, and this area was later demolished and infilled.

Plumstead Gardens was created after the Second World War, at around the same period as other public gardens in the area, such as Well Hall Pleasaunce and Bostall Gardens. They all share similar architectural features. Prior to this the land was used for allotment gardens. The park gates retain the crest of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, and it was originally laid out as an ornamental garden with a notable area of hard landscaping comprising a raised terrace at the east end, with an ornate sunken formal garden with central pool, walks and rose beds. The park used to have a permanent park keeper, but after this ceased to be the case in the early 1990s the park suffered neglect and vandalism. The formal ponds were drained and some of the stonework damaged, and this area was later demolished and infilled.

Plumstead Gardens is a small recreation ground in Plumstead, in the suburbs of south east London. This photograph was taken on a late December afternoon, not long before dusk.

As seen from Image This line leads from Dartford (via Abbey Wood) and then onwards to central London (via Plumstead and Woolwich). On the right is a plot of development land beside a recreational ground.

Brookdene Road is a residential road in Plumstead, in the suburbs of south east London.