Hard-Fi lead singer Richard Archer is quoted to have said: “A lot of the bars are closing, Habitat went into administration, Jane Norman, Thorntons. It’s all starting to fall to bits.” “Staines is in a dark place at the moment, like a ghost town.” Of course, there was an official rebuttal from the Staines Council. [...]
Staines Town Hall panoramic image
Hard-Fi lead singer Richard Archer is quoted to have said:
“A lot of the bars are closing, Habitat went into administration, Jane Norman, Thorntons. It’s all starting to fall to bits.”
“Staines is in a dark place at the moment, like a ghost town.”
Of course, there was an official rebuttal from the Staines Council.
My observations with due regards to Richard’s comments:
The concentration of stable energy is centred on the main shopping areas near the Elmsleigh Shopping Centre (http://michaeloon.com/blog/a-look-at-staines-town-centre ). The other areas (marked A) do not have the energy and the business will not be good. This can be easily seen with the boarded up shops or “for sale sign” by the shops.
Should you drive through the town, you will not see any of the prosperous areas, it is like an hidden enclave. The roads pass the “deprived” areas. An example is shown in the image above.
The above image is of “The Town Hall” with the surrounding buildings. There are no less than 5 “for sale” or “to let “ signs on this panoramic image. This is precisely the impression you get when driving pass. No doubt, this is how Hper-Fi’s Richard Archer got the impression that Staines is like a Ghost town,
The good news from Richard’s comment is the Staines Thorton’s Chocolate shop is still traiding.
Thortons chocolate shop in Staines
Update 24th Oct 2011:
The feel of Staines as a “Ghost Town” in my opinion, is due to the River Thames pulling away the energy from the Town, The energy loss can be minimised by a careful design of buildings at specific locations to hold the energy – very much like how Elmsleigh Shopping Centre holds the energy. This will behave very much like a dam holding and preventing the outflow of the energy. I will not go into detail as it can get very technical. Once this is done, the town centre will have a very different feel and appearance. Staines will have a feel of a real town and not a “Ghost Town”.
Secondly, the areas peripheral to the town centre, where the offices and business parks are. These areas are prosperous because they are outside the energy pull of the river. The pulling away of the energy from the Staines Town centre.
Related Blogs on Staines
Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in Staines
Hard-Fi lead singer Richard Archer comments on Staines – Some Observations
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In the past few years, the town “Staines” has been the mentioned in the media. Hard-Fi, an indie band had stated that Staines as a Ghost Town. Ali G, a satirical fictional character kept referring to Staines as his home town. With this bout of negative publicity, Staines council members have been considering re-branding their town [...]
Looking to the outside from the Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in Staines
In the past few years, the town “Staines” has been the mentioned in the media. Hard-Fi, an indie band had stated that Staines as a Ghost Town. Ali G, a satirical fictional character kept referring to Staines as his home town. With this bout of negative publicity, Staines council members have been considering re-branding their town as “Staines-upon-Thames”.
I thought that, as I live nearby, have a look at this town. Even though I have lived in this area for the past 30 years, I have never set foot in the town. All the roads seem to pass it.
Staines has been around since the Roman times some 2,000 years ago. Not as a town but as a river crossing. It continued to be a major crossing on the River Thames because of its proximity to Windsor. In the late 20th Century, particularly with the proximity to London’s Heathrow Airport, Staines has become an attractive location to site offices. The town centre grew in the 1980s after the development of the Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in 1979.
Staines is not a natural town or a settlement for the simple reason that the energy is not held in that location. The energy is being pulled away by the river (see image below).
Energy flow on Staines Town (without any buildings)
The small blue arrows show the flow of the river. The big red arrow shows the energy coming from the river. The big blue arrow shows the energy being pulled away from the town centre by the river. The energy is not allowed to settle in the town centre. This is the natural flow of energy when there are no buildings.
It was the development of the Elmsleigh Shopping Centre that stopped this leakage of the energy. With this came the growth of the town as a shopping area and a busy one it is.
Energy flows through Staines Town. Areas marked "A" have less energy
The small blue arrows show the flow of the river. The red arrows show the movement of energy from the river to the town centre. The buildings in the town centre hold this energy – hence the prosperity. As soon as you go outside the town centre (areas marked A ) – you will notice that there is no energy and the shops do not do well. This is unlike the town centre and parts of the Elmsleigh Shopping Centre.
Staines is a town of shops coffee shops and fast food. It does not have the night life – clubs or fine dining. The energy is too unsettled for such establishments. These establishments are only present where the energy is settled and usually in real towns or settlements like Guildford.
Related Blogs on Staines
Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in Staines
Hard-Fi lead singer Richard Archer comments on Staines – Some Observations
(c) Copyright – Dr Michael Oon. All Rights Reserved Worldwide 2011.
Apple have opened yet another Store in this country. This time in the Festival Place – a well appointed shopping mall in the middle of Basingstoke in Hampshire, UK. Basingstoke is at the South West edge of the Home Counties, the large prosperous area surrounding London in the South East of England. Opening was the [...]
Apple have opened yet another Store in this country. This time in the Festival Place – a well appointed shopping mall in the middle of Basingstoke in Hampshire, UK. Basingstoke is at the South West edge of the Home Counties, the large prosperous area surrounding London in the South East of England.
Opening was the usual Apple Spectacular – an exuberance of Apple staff – whooping and Mexican waving at 9am. Queues snaked on the shopping malls passage towards the new Apple store. So much energy being made by the Apple staff and fans that people from the neighbouring stores started joining in the activities. It was really enlightening!
This Apple store is a standard unit at the Festival Place. There is the usual Apple layout of wooden tables displaying the latest Apple products to try. The walls were stacked with units filled with accessories. As it is a shop on the single level, there is not the spectacular Apple Staircase in the centre.
Feng Shui Analysis: As the Apple Basingstoke store is in the innards of the shopping centre, it depends so much on the overall feng shui of the host building. There is plenty of energy filling the building as can be seen in the occupied units and the minimal of “Vacant“signs.
The store will not do spectacularly because of its location. It will do well because it is an Apple Store.
(c) Copyright – Dr Michael Oon. All Rights Reserved Worldwide 2011.
