DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Sunday, 01 February, 2026.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

 Rising Sun

Open 2025+

Twitton Lane

Twitton

Otford

01959 525489

https://whatpub.com/rising-sun

Rising Sun 1910

Above photo circa 1910.
Rising Sun 1985

Above photo, 2 February 1985, by Jim Ashby.
Rising Sun back garden

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo 2008 by Ian Capper Creative Commons Licence.
Rising Sun 2016

Above photo 2016.
Rising Sun sign 1996Rising Sun sign 2014

Above sign left, August 1996, sign right, 2014.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.
Rising Sun sign 2013Rising Sun sign 2013

Above sign at front of pub left, and right at back of pub, both 2013, kindly sent by Kevin Flack.
Rising Sun inside

Above photo, date unknown.
Rising Sun inside

Above photo, date unknown.
Rising Sun inside

Above photo, date unknown.

 

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

 

Dover Express, Friday 5 February 1937.

Silver Wedding.

Sweetman - Virgo.

On February 6th, 1912, Holy Trinity Church, Dover, Charles John Sweetman (late Sergeant R.G.A.,) to Minnie Rose Virgo, youngest daughter of the late Alfred Virgo. Present address, the "Rising Sun," Twitten, Otford, near Sevenoaks, Kent.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

CASSAM Edward 1861-99+ (age 34 in 1861Census)

SALMON Corrie Mrs 1903+

SAVIDGE John 1913+

CHOWN Charles William 1922+

MATTHEWS Arthur 1930+

SWEETMAN Charles John 1934-37+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/RisingSun.shtml

 

CensusCensus

 

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