The Storage.co.uk Award for Thinking Outside the Box
“Awarded for an innovation which has changed any aspect of self storage, making it more efficient for customers or taking it in new directions.” Here are the results…
Tales of the unexpected
Review of “Self Storage: A Novel” by Gayle Brandeis
A novel about self storage? Really? Genuinely set against the background of the self storage industry? Yes indeed, and Gayle Brandeis’s novel is written with considerable charm, verve, invention and skill.
Self storage: Weird and Wonderful Collections
Many long-term customers of self storage use the space to store things they collect. Some of these collections are ordinary, others less so. Plenty of bibliophiles use a unit for their own personal library. Some women fill theirs with boxes of antique clothing they’ve spent decades building up, whilst many men own hundreds of LPs. […]
Ten self storage anecdotes
We want to build up a good collection of storage anecdotes, so please add your own through the Comment Box (“Leave a Reply”) at the foot of the page. Here are ten to kick off with. Later we can restructure the anecdotes under various topics, using the best of your submissions.
Singles Night at the Self Storage Facility
The self storage industry has a surprisingly intimate connection with personal relationships. It is there to help when a couple comes together and chooses to make two houses into one; to save the relationship in clashes over excessive hoarding and/or tidiness; and to provide shelter to the possessions of the ejected partner when divorce strikes.
Storing up talent: workshops and studios in self storage
Dressmaking studios, craft workshops, studios for choreographers, artists, sculptors, printmakers, filmmakers and photographers, workshops for product assembly and repairs, even sound-proofed studios for budding rock musicians… these are just a few of the inventive uses that self storage units are now being put to.
Self Storage and Terrorism
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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