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Picture source: Bob Pearce

The Rising Sun was situated at 73a Botany Bay Road. It was converted to two large inter-connected maisonettes.c2000. The local area seems to have a large number of mobile homes with white flatbed trucks outside and my memories of the pub are that it had rather nice etched glass windows. A local site says "The Fountain was a rough place in those days but was made to look like a playgroup compared to the Rising Sun in Botany Bay Road , Sholing". It did have a bit of a reputation.

Source: Barry Taylor

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Name Dates Comments Harry Pearce 1956/1980 A sholing boy from high firs road had many great nights there with morry stokes eddie travers eddie bowers and other traveller lads i went to taunton grammar sshool but loved the rough and ready life in sholing i am now 86 years old still fit and active i wonder if any of the great guys i knew are still around ihave lived in devon for nearly 50 years but time does not erase the memories of a wonderful pub like so many sadly gone

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Picture source: Barry Taylor