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The 2025 Swan Upping – A Better Year?

The annual Swan Upping event on the River Thames, started on Monday at Sunbury Lock in Surrey. I grabbed my camera, jumped on my bike again and followed the flotilla on the first leg, through to the Swan pub in Staines.

The Annual Swan Upping 2025, Chertsey, Surrey, July 14, 2025. ©Douglas Kurn
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On Their Uppers – Swan Upping Along The River Thames

The Royal Tradition of Swan Upping takes place every July on the River Thames, so I got my bike out again, and headed down to Shepperton Lock to meet up with the Swan Uppers, on the first day of Swan Upping of 2023.

David Barber, the Kings’ Swan Marker, Sunbury Lock, Sunbury-on-Thames, 17/07/2023. Photo by Douglas Kurn
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