St Johns Wood - Tube Station

CityStore Self -Storage provides self storage rooms for residents of St Johns Wood (or St John’s Wood). CityStore has over 250 units available for use by both domestic and business customers who can store practically anything they need.

St Johns Wood is located on the Jubilee Line which is the Underground’s newest line but which serves stations that are over 100 years old. The Jubilee Line was inaugurated on 1st May 1979 and linked up the most recent sections of new tunnelling to open in central London – the four km (2½miles) of twin tunnels between Baker Street and Charing Cross – with the former Bakerloo Line branch between Baker Street and Stanmore.

Here’s an amazing stat – The Jubilee Line is used by more than 400,000 travellers a day and by over 127 million passengers per year.

Lords Cricket Ground - St John's Wood

The home of English Cricket, Lord’s, is  situated in St John’s Wood just over a mile away from CityStore Self Storage in Camden Town.

The English have a particular affinity for the game of cricket and, despite the fact that over the last 10 years we have not been a team of world-beaters,  our recent exploits Down Under have raised the profile of the game once more. Suddenly, men throughout the country are dusting off their cricket bags and are ‘padding up’ to play Sunday cricket.

The cricket season is only short so rather than clutter up a room with all the various items of kit, why not store it securely until the next season’s opening match. For people living in the areas of St John’s Wood, Hampstead and Belsize Park, CityStore is only a few minutes drive away. Being open 7 days a week, your goods are always accessible whenever you need them.

Call CityStore on 0207 428 9988.

New ideas in the world of self-storage often begin in the US and then find there way to the UK many years afterwards.

The majority of ideas are simple improvements on the well-trodden path of self-st0rage design and build, but occasionally a brand new idea comes around and may re-define the industry. One such idea is the Boomerang Automated Storage facility.Rather than the customer being required to access their storage unit via corridors, the Boomerang Automated Storage facility brings the storage unit to the customer. By tapping in a unique authorisation code, the customer waits by one of the numerous access doors to the storage facility and the automatic system finds their storage unit and delivers it to them.

All credit to the brains at Boomerang. This setup provides maximum use of space for the company and the minimum effort on the part of the customer. A match made in heaven we think. See below for a video showing how it works.

CityStore Self-Storage has a self storage facility on Malden Crescent in Camden Town, London NW1 8BS. For prices and availability, call 0207 428 9988.

Within the world of file-sharing and data storage the market has changed focus. Rather than companies competing to produce hard drives with a bigger and bigger capacity to store music and photos,  the market is looking for products that make accessing these media items that little bit easier.

The PogoPlug may just be the bit of kit that does just that…How many times have you been away from home and wished you could access a file or a photo that is sitting on your hard drive at home? If you are anything like me then probably quite a lot. So what is differnet about the PogoPlug?

The PogoPlug is a new multimedia sharing device that connects your external hard drives to the web so that you can access all your music, photos and documents wherever you go. There is no uploading and sharing is as simple as sending an invitation through an automated email link. Pogoplug works across multiple operating platforms and even allows you to stream videos, music and photos directly to your iPhone® or Blackberry. Sound good? Well it is so check it out.

CityStore Self-Storage provides storage for music and files of a different kind. Rather than storing electronically, CityStore provides storage space for paper-based documents in our specially constructed archive storage rooms. Call 0207 428 9988 or visit us for more information.

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.

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….With the ability to travel at up to 13 mph whilst keeping your drinks cool, this surely must be the ideal summer portable storage solution. It can accommodate 24 cans of your beverage of choice whether that be water, Coca-Cola or something slightly stronger.

It is no great surprise that these are only currently available in the States, but maybe the recession is causing some belt-tightening within their marketing departments and it is just a matter of time before we see them over here.

Be sure to come and visit us at CityStore if you do purchase one as we would love to see one.