Day Three Hundred and Seven

Today I visited Maidenhead for the first time in a while only to see a ghost town. Now I'll admit I haven't been there in probably over a year and it is January, the worst month of the year for retailers. But Maidenhead was once a very pleasant place to go to, maybe it still is and I caught it at a poor moment, but today, it was empty and in decay.

High Wycombe gets a lot of criticism, particularly the relatively new Eden Shopping centre. To me this unjust, the Eden Shopping Centre is something that Wycombe District Council (EDC) got very very right and signs in closed Maidenhead store fronts directing their customers to Wycombe are a symbol of its success.

Opening at the beginning of the credit crunch, Eden and good Conservative lead WDC policy has helped High Wycombe to ride the recession better than most towns, the comparison to nearby Maidenhead is proof of this.