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[[File:4RHA1 St Peters Plemstall.jpg|thumb|''<small>St. Peter's Church, Plemstall</small>'']]
One of the men was [[Osborne Aldis]], a sometime gentleman of Chester with an interest in history, and as it will turn out, an interesting history of his own. At some point in early July 1908 Aldis was examining a collection of butterflies in the Grosvenor Museum, when he had a chance encounter with a Rev. Dempster. This led to a trip to Plemstall and Plegmund's Well. Aldis described the excursion with considerable eloquence in a letter to the Chester Courant published on 5th August 1908, although he apparently knows little about Plegmund and appears to get much of his information from the driver he has hired.
Rev. Hubert Alfred Dempster (1871-1939), an Australian, was only passing through Chester having disembarked at Liverpool that morning en route from Sidney to the first Pan-Anglican Congress at Lambeth, London, to which he was one of three Australian delegates. The meeting, a trip to [[Plemstall Church]] and the well, a subsequent visit to the Cathedral and Aldis waving Dempster off on the 17:35 at Chester General station all happened in the compass of a single day. Dempster barely made his London-bound train and as Aldis himself recorded the event:
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