Walking down the street earlier from our Camden branch of CityStore, my eye was drawn to a display in a branch of a local shop that reminded me of a storage solution for kids that are seen in airports every time we travel.
The Trunki was first seen on Dragon’s Den where the dragons opted not to help finance entrepreneur Rob Law’s idea for a ride-on suitcase for kids. Ultimately the Dragons had to eat there words as over 85,000 cases have been sold and the company valued at £1m+.
We take our hat off to Rob. Trying to get a small child to carry their own stuff is a challenge at the best of times but to produce an item that they actually want to take hold of is quite a thing.
Whilst our storage centre in Camden had its own internal design issues during its construction the final result is certainly something of a success as well. Visit us at our store on Malden Crescent, Camden NW1.
A Japanese steel engineering company has come up with an ingenious way of securely storing hundreds and even thousands of bikes! TheBike Tree is a fully mechanized locker system that electronically tags the bicycle and takes it via a conveyor belt to a internal storage area.
When it is time to collect a bicycle, the owner swipes a card through a reader which located at the entrance and the bicycle is returned via the same automated system, taking between 15 seconds and one minute to retrieve depending on the capacity of the storage area.
The Bike Tree, now in operation in various train stations in Tokyo, can store between 600 and 6,000 bicycles. And the cost to the user? Roughly ¥1,800 (£13.50) for a secure monthly bicycle parking spot with additional discounts for students.
Sometimes we all find products that transform their everyday lives and we wonder how we ever survived without them. Then there’s the Scooter-Cooler – one of those products that won’t transform your life but would love to have…. (more…)
Calling all Camden Residents! Join Camden Council in helping them define their vision for being a sustainable, low carbon borough by 2030!
Recently Camden Council have been active in promoting green issues throughout the borough and is eager to involve as many residents as possible in their discussions. The focus will be on providing energy-saving tips for the home, practical food-growing and also a free bicycle surgery for all those cyclists.
Camden launched a new re-cycling service last week to encourage the residents to become ‘greener’ and to do their part for the enviroment.
Like councils in other parts of the London and the U.K, residents will receive a special recycling kit to enable them to easily recycle food and garden waste on a weekly basis.
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Camden Council has recently announced a shortlist of architects who will now compete for the opportunity to design sustainable housing for residents in one of the borough’s estates. The plans build on earlier investment in the estate, which has included a new football pitch and new CCTV. (more…)
Berlin was the host city of this year’s European Self-Storage Conference and CityStore were in attendance as full members of the UK Self Storage Association (SSA).
Over the 3 days of the conference all member visitors were able to see new innovations in the self-storage marketplace as well as hearing from guest speakers such as Anne Ballard (Universal Management Company) and Jonathan Perrins (Self Storage Association Australasia) about growth of self-storage in other world markets.
We were also lucky enough to be able to spend some time in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, visiting one of the breathtaking palaces.
Here at CityStore Self-Storage we love everything storage. So we couldn’t resist sharing a great new storage solution that we saw on sale recently – storage cufflinks!
For the man who never likes to go anywhere without a means of saving important documents, it is the perfect solution.
While CityStore caters for business storage of another variety, namely for those looking to store stock and archives, we do acknowledge that it is a clever use of space.
As word spreads that there is self storage company just up the road from The Stables Market, more and more traders are deciding to take space.
One trader in fact has moved lock, stock and barrel from the market into CityStore. Roomscape, a company that specialises in vintage and retro antiques, asked us to create a large unit that he could use as a showroom for potential buyers.
With free access to the centre 7 days a week via pincode, Sergio from Roomscape has found a great solution.
