Staines-upon-Thames, as it insists on being called, is one part medieval charter, one part mortgage belt, and one part Channel 4 archive footage. We drank Pride and watched the river slip past.

Staines-upon-Thames, as it insists on being called, is one part medieval charter, one part mortgage belt, and one part Channel 4 archive footage. We drank Pride and watched the river slip past.

Social media users claimed the video of the murmuration — when starlings gather in the thousands at dusk — was recorded in late May 2025.

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Punt fishing on the River Thames at Richmond-upon-Thames, London. Horses hauling a barge along the riverside are causing some chaos among the bank fishermen. One of a series of comic cartoons of ...