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  Illustrated Police News report on the Plumstead ghost Scan

  © The British Library Board. All rights reserved. ·from The Plumstead Ghost Riot: St James's Church, Plumstead, near Woolwich, 1897 (1897)
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  Woolwich Gazette and Kentish Advertiser clipping, 29 October 1897, page 5 Scan

  Posted by reader Rob L ·from The Plumstead Ghost Riot: St James's Church, Plumstead, near Woolwich, 1897 (1897)

  A Ghost at. Flumstead.—Arthur Cotton, 16 machinist, of 7, Griffin-road, Plumstead, and David Jones, 16, apprentices, of 34, Durham-road, Plumstead, were charged at Woolwich on Wednesday with being disorderly in Churcherrace, Plumstead, the previous evening. P.c. Bond, 46R, said the prisoners were su…

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  Illustrated Police News engraving of the Plumstead ghost, 6 November 1897 Scan

  Illustrated Police News, 1897; scan hosted by Strange History ·from The Plumstead Ghost Riot: St James's Church, Plumstead, near Woolwich, 1897 (1897)
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  Newspaper illustration said to show schoolboys stoning the phantom Scan

  E. J. Moon's Substack ·from The Plumstead Ghost Riot: St James's Church, Plumstead, near Woolwich, 1897 (1897)

  A GHOST APPEARS NEAR WOOLWICH. SCHOOLBOYS ENJOY THE SPORT OF PELTING IT. [SUBJECT OF ILLUSTRATION.] PLUMSTEAD, near Woolwich, has for the past week been the scene of a ghostly visitation, in which the "spirit" has appeared enveloped at night in white array. Several children who saw the apparition we…