Last month, on 24 February, NASA’s veteran space shuttle Discovery set off on its last voyage into outer-space, tasked with delivering vital components to the International Space Station (ISS). What form did these components take? Essentially a large self storage unit. And a robot.
In the UK, self storage facilities have strict regulations about what you can and cannot keep in storage. Firearms are usually included among the forbidden items. But is that written in stone?
Staff at Big Yellow in Leeds alerted the authorities to suspicious activities in April 2010, leading to the arrest of three men accused of handling tonnes of contraband tobacco on which £1.2 million in customs duty would have been due.
The Ministry of Defence has sold off 10 nuclear bunkers in the last five years, one of which is being used for self storage, according to a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
Whole Story Audio Books recently published a collection of five new short stories called “The Sounds of Crime”. The first of these is a chilling tale about a classic case of compulsive hoarding.
People use self storage units for all kinds of purposes. However, for a small minority, self storage provides the unlikely location for romantic trysts.
There are no legal restrictions about where you can put cremated remains or ashes (or ‘cremains’). Some end up in self storage units. This solution may not always be as heartless as it sounds. But it can have unwelcome outcomes…
It’s no secret that the private, clandestine nature of self storage means it can sometimes present criminals with the perfect cover for getting up to no good.
One of the most mysterious things about Father Christmas is where he stores all his presents. After all, it would be quite easy to find him if there were billions of packages piled up in front of his house, or if he owned the only distribution centre in Lapland. The fact no one sees his […]
December saw the launch of a new “real life” series in the USA, called Storage Wars ‒ following the antics of a set of larger-than-life fortune-hunters who buy the contents of abandoned storage units. It has caused quite a stir: will it be coming to the UK soon?
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