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unusual facts about Staines


Staines High Street railway station

Staines High Street railway station formerly served the town of Staines-upon-Thames, on the Windsor & Eton line of the London and South Western Railway.


A308 road

The largely straight road from Hampton Court was surfaced and tolled in the 1780s by the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust.

David Staines

Staines specializes in three particular areas: medieval, Victorian and Canadian literatures, with particular interest in the relationship between literature and its social context.

Frederick Walton

Frederick Edward Walton (bap. 1834, near Halifax, d. 1928), was an English manufacturer and inventor who invented Linoleum in Staines (patented in 1860) and Lincrusta (invented in 1877).

George Greenleaf

A native of Brazil, Indiana, Greenleaf was the son of George F. Greenleaf, Sr. (1848–1900) and Agnes Dalgleish Staines.

Gladys Staines

Gladys Staines (born c. 1951) is the widow of Australian missionary Graham Staines.

Greene's Tu Quoque

Bubble enjoys the reverse fortune, coming into money – yet he remains true to his master, the gentlemanly Staines, mourning the man's decline and urging him to repair his fortunes...by robbery ("if we be taken, we'll hang together at Tyburn").

Pontage

Grants were made from 1228 until the 1440s, the earliest being for bridges at Ferrybridge, Yorkshire and Staines, an important crossing of the river Thames.

Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London

#Feltham/Staines/Sunbury-on-Thames

Steve Holley

In 1978, soon after performing on Elton John's hit single "Ego", a chance meeting in a pub in his hometown of Staines with Denny Laine resulted in him being invited to join Wings.

The Swimming Pool Library

Will takes Phil to visit Staines, a successful studio photographer who echoes Cecil Beaton.

Yeoveney Halt railway station

It was renamed Runymede Halt on 9 July 1934, and again renamed Yeoveney Halt in 4 November 1935, to deter tourists who came seeking the place where Magna Carta was signed (which was some miles away by road).


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