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Brick two-story pub with large letters B & T on the side, a hanging sign, and a telegraph pole on the right-hand corner.

Rising Sun public house, Swavesey High Street. In WWII popular with airmen from RAF Oakington and soldiers from local searchlight batteries. Last pub in Swavesey to be closed in 1963. (Alan Lee Swavesey collection)

Rising Sun, Swavesey

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