Archive Attic was set up in 2003 by George Matts’ father and uncle with the idea of supplying archive storage services (hence the name of their company), but they have broadened out to providing space for all sorts of items, mainly furniture and household goods.
Safestore are set on a steady expansion policy and have almost 100 self storage facilities in the UK – a target they’ve said they plan to reach during 2011.
If you are moving house, but need to store your possessions between houses, should you choose the storage offered to you by the removals company, or self storage?
Despite it not yet having a huge self storage industry, there are several reasons for people needing self storage in Coventry.
During the summer, two university students from Switzerland, came to work at the offices of Storage.co.uk. We gave them the task of analysing the websites of all the self storage companies on our database — no mean task, as there are more than 500 of these (multi-site companies not included). It gave them a unique insight into the British self storage industry. This is their report.
An increasing number of the larger self storage companies are including offices-for-rent in their new-build facilities. And many customers are satisfied.
It is not often that self-storage facilities hit the headlines, but this was the fate of Access Storage in Hanwell, West London, in March 2004. In one of its units was a 600 kg bag of ammonium nitrate, a relatively cheap chemical used widely as an agricultural fertilizer. And also as an ingredient to make bombs — the kind of bombs that have been used to devastating effect in Bali, Oklahoma City, London, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
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