He also lived part of his life in Staines.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London while Staines Urban District was transferred to Surrey.

As part of these proposals a new station, to be called Staines High Street railway station was due to be built between the existing Staines station, and Wraysbury railway station although planners have now decided that this will not go ahead and the existing station would have an additional platform built instead.

A WNW route passes London Heathrow Airport Terminals 1 – 3 and 5 as the Bath Road and a WSW route, the A30, passes Terminal 4, bypasses Staines and reaches the M25 ; the remainder is for the most part a minor route to Land's End, Cornwall.

This railway line formerly continued to Staines-upon-Thames and there are plans to re-use the southern part of it for the Heathrow Airtrack rail link from Staines to Heathrow Airport.

* Hythe End ( a village, now part of Staines )

The village lies within the historic boundaries of Middlesex and from 1930 formed part of the Staines Urban District which was transferred to Surrey in 1965.

In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, Ashford became part of the Staines Rural District of Middlesex.

Prior to the ice ages the River Thames followed a path through the southern part of Hertfordshire, running from the area of modern Staines up the valley of the Colne to Hatfield and then eastward across Essex originally towards the primeval Rhine but later down the valley of the modern River Lea.

Shepperton was a parish in the Staines Rural District ( and Middlesex which had a county council from 1896 ) from 1889 to 1930, when it became part of the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District.

From 1930 Stanwell formed part of the Staines Urban District of Middlesex.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London while the Staines Urban District was transferred to Surrey.

BAA have published as part of the Airtrack consultation that they also want to extend the Heathrow Express to a new platform at Staines railway station.

In 1848 before Riverside station opened, the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway had been incorporated into the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ), which ran the services until 1923 when, under the railway grouping of the Railways Act 1921, the LSWR became part of the Southern Railway.

Staines took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and served as Quartermaster General in the GPO and was later interned at the Frongoch internment camp.

It was based on the parish of Feltham, which had previously been part of the Staines Rural District.

The emperor Claudius sent the Romans into Britain in 43 A. D and they settled in Staines the same year.

In December 2011 South West Trains confirmed that platform 20 will be brought back into use in 2014, hosting certain services to and from Reading, Windsor, Staines and Hounslow.

After turning down an offer to have sex with Kate Hedges, in exchange for " keeping his mouth shut " about the videotape, Ali and the West Staines Massiv must race against time to find the master copy of the CCTV tape proving the former Prime Minister's innocence, extending the olive branch to all the gangs all over Staines and neighbouring Berkshire ( even to the East Staines Massiv ) to help them break into the vaults and retrieve the said tape.

* Civil Aircraft Accident Report 4 / 73: Trident I G-ARPI: Report of the Public Inquiry into the Causes and Circumstances of the Accident near Staines on 18 June 1972.

* Civil Aircraft Accident Report 4 / 73: Trident I G-ARPI: Report of the Public Inquiry into the Causes and Circumstances of the Accident near Staines on 18 June 1972 – Appendix A Accident Investigation Branch, Department of Trade and Industry.

The villages of Cole Green, Birch Green, and Staines Green were bypassed in the 1990s by a new dual carriageway that linked into the 1970s Hertingfordbury bypass.

Hindu groups allege that he forcefully converted or lured many Hindus into Christianity, but Staines ' widow Gladys Staines denied these allegations.

The " new " 5-car sets will be designated Class 458 / 5 and coupled together to form 10-car trains to provide extra peak-time capacity on suburban services into Waterloo from the Hounslow, Weybridge ( via Staines ) and Windsor lines, using one of the four disused Waterloo International platforms, starting in 2014.

Staines reveals that Charles ’ s brother was homosexually insatiable, exploited his servants and was subsequently beaten to death and that Charles ’ s uncle was likewise into rough trade.

The Staines, Wokingham & Woking Junction Railway ( SW & WJR ) opened a line between and Wokingham ( Staines Junction ) on 9 July 1856 ; the SW & WJR was worked by the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ), and they were authorised to run over the SER into Reading.

In 1957 the company was acquired by Hawker-Siddeley and some production was moved to Hamble as the reorganized company was split into four groups within Hawker-Siddeley Brush Group -- Petter Staines ( small engines ), Petter Generator Divisions, Petter Marine Division, Petter Service Division and Thermo-King Division ( building refrigeration units under license from the US firm Thermo-King ).

While Archer was making demos to produce an album, he went into the Staines hi-fi shop where Ross Phillips worked, simply so he could listen to his latest demos on the shop's best equipment.

Route 605 was planned for the Claygate area but did not come into effect, and route 606 began in 1971 from Staines to Stanwell Moor and Stanwell village.

He was picked to head the inquiry into the Staines air disaster in 1972, and concluded that the underlying cause was an undiagnosed heart condition of the pilot which impaired his judgement, coupled with the pilot's known bad temper which led to his junior crew being unwilling to challenge him.

* 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

* 1999-Trans World Radio goes on the air from Grigoriopol ( Moldova ) using a 1-million-watt AM transmitter ; Veteran Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons are burned alive by Hindu extremists as they are sleeping in a car in eastern India.

Graham Staines was burnt alive along with their two sons Philip ( aged 9 ) and Timothy ( aged 7 ) in Orissa, India on 22 January 1999.

* " Gladys Staines may leave India forever "-Times of India article, 14 July 2004

* " Gladys Staines bids adieu to India "-Times of India article, 15 July 2004

* " Gladys Staines leaves India promising to return "

Dr. Graham Stuart Staines ( 1941 – 22 January 1999 ) was an Australian Christian missionary who along with his two sons Philip ( aged 10 ) and Timothy ( aged 6 ) were burnt to death by a gang while sleeping in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Orissa, India on January 22, 1999.

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

A public consultation resulted in two to one approval, but there were some public objections, including from the Staines football team which attempted to present 134 signatures to the council but they were not received.

A provisional governing committee was set up in Dublin in May 1916, including Eamon Martin, Seamus Pounch, Theo Fitzgerald, Liam Staines and Joe Reynolds.

Ali is put forward as a candidate to be the next MP for Staines in a crucial by-election and manages to alienate most who cross his path, including feminists and the elderly.