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The Volunteer, Plumstead, SE18
SE18
SE18 1JQ
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Volunteer
This is quite a homely locals' pub on the main road in Plumstead. It's comfortable, being carpeted, furnished with upholstered fixed bench seating and normal tables and chairs. It's a single room now, with the room stretching back past the servery on the right to an area containing a pool table. There is some nice wood panelling on the walls, but unfortunately painted a sort of blue/aquamarine colour, a large map of the old Woolwich area on the wall, plus as Christmas is only five weeks away there were Santa's stockings attached to a mantlepiece.
Perhaps surprisingly for a previously unreviewed pub, this one does sell real ale - predictably London Pride and Doom Bar, with the Pride being in good condition. It's an ordinary sort of pub, but there's nothing wrong with that. It's not a destination pub, but worth dropping in for a swift one if you're in Plumstead.
On 22nd November 2019
- rating: 5
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Woolwich Arsenal, 1.17 miles, 22 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 13 December 2023 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes - Sky Sports/BT Sport. - last updated 13 December 2023 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 13 December 2023 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 09 May 2014 by Dave McNally
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