Ready Steady Blog

When and where did self-storage arrive in the UK?
As with many new ideas that originate in the USA, self-storage was exported to the UK around 10 years later and so it was with self-storage. During the early 1980’s, a few low grade facilities started to appear in and around London in poor quality buildings, mainly [...]

The early self-storage entrepreneurs in the USA during the 1970’s came from a broad spectrum of life. One, for instance, was a young teacher who had nowhere to store his stuff during one summer vacation so the following summer he decided to open a store for people like himself and charge them a rent. Thus, [...]