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We Love Student Moves! Here at Van Man Northampton we thrive on providing support to students at times of great stress such as moving away from home for the first time when moving into Student Accommodation, such as Halls, is standard procedure. Moving into Halls of Residence is such a time and is invariably going[…]

We Move Phone Boxes Now Too! When the Elizabeth School Of London asked us to head up to their facility in the trendy quarter of Birmingham to move a red phone box down to their Northampton site, Mick and I almost fell off our chairs laughing because we remember the original GPO ones that you’d[…]

North Acton The London Universities are continuously building new Halls of Residence all over the city and these are springing up in some unexpected places. The one thing they always do though is ensure that students have good access to transport services. UAL’s new development in West London is no different where they’ve built a[…]

Relocating to St George’s Hospital  Some people’s jobs seem to involve a lot more moving around than others and that seems to be particularly prevalent in the medical profession. We do seem to move a lot of nursing staff all over the country when they change jobs or take on new roles and when Obaro[…]

Quick trip to Banbury Rush job in this morning. Incoming call at 10am from Mandy who had been let down by another removals firm. Request to collect from Daventry and deliver to Banbury and into a storage unit. With it being a Sunday, I knew they would close at 2pm so I just drove straight[…]

Moving motorcycles is our thing. If your motorbike has broken down or won’t start just call us on the number at the bottom of the gage and we’ll organise your recovery as soon as we can. Here at Van Man Northampton, we specialise in moving bikes  whether they’re runners or not. In most cases, we’ll[…]

Jess and friends We received an enquiry from first year student Jess at UoN Waterside Campus asking if we could provide a quotation to move herself and two other students from Halls at the end of the Summer Term. They wanted to move into more independent lodgings before the summer break ready for when they[…]

An easy mistake to make So there he was, Antony, just clicking away on the IKEA website ready for click and collect later in the day when the penny suddenly dropped that 2.3 metre lengths of flat pack wardrobe is not going to fit in any car, let alone his flash BMW coupe! The hunt[…]

Northampton’s New Storage Facility Here Self-Storage at Lodge Farm Here is the UK’s newest self storage company and they have chosen Northampton as their second facility. From beginnings in Loughborough, they are looking to expand across the midlands and primarily, the M1 corridor making Northampton an obvious siting. They’ve also pulled no punches in seeking[…]

We collect & deliver Motorbikes too! On a Sunday afternoon we received a last-minute request to provide a transport solution for the collection and delivery of a motorcycle the following day. We happened to have availability for the next day so we agreed to assist and booked the job into our schedule. On the Monday[…]