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Making Your Move?
Get a fast, free quote today from Hertfordshire’s trusted relocation specialists. Keeping families on the move since 1857.
Our Removals Service Includes…
Removals Coordinator
On hand to help you through to your completed move.
Mileage
There are no hidden costs. All our quotes include mileage.
Goods in Transit Cover
Restricted liability is provided as standard.*
Robe Cartons
Clothes travel in style in our robe cartons.
Covers & Blankets
Slot-on, padded covers protect white goods and furniture.
Carbon Footprint Offsetting
To offset carbon emissions we’re planting 2,000 trees.
Uniformed Crew
Our trained crews are DBS checked and carry photo ID.
Recycled Materials
We use recycled/recyclable materials where possible.
Biodegradable Mattress Bags
Mattress bags are used once, then recycled.
Carpet Runners
Floor protection is available for both locations.**
Extra Services
Packing
Comprehensive expert packing services, from single room, specialist items to complete home contents packing.
Storage
Short and long-term containerised storage. We'll collect from your old home and deliver to your new property.
Packing Materials
Wardrobe cartons, boxes, packing materials, tape, paper wrap. Made from recycled and recyclable materials.
A Very Short History of Hertfordshire
350,000 BCE
The earliest evidence of humans moving to Hertfordshire are flint tools, found in a gravel pit in Rickmansworth dating the area back 350,000 years before Britain became an island.
1200 – 500 BCE
A Celtic tribe called the Catuvellauni occupy the county during the Iron Age.
55 BCE
Caesar reports to the Roman Senate on a battle with Cassivellaunus ‘leader of the Britons’ in Hertfordshire.
43 CE
Romans invade again, defeating the Catuvellauni in July.
600
The area is split between the Kingdoms of Merica and Essex (East Saxons).
1003
King Sweyn Forkbeard invades the following in retaliation to the St Brice’s Day Massacre at Oxford when Danish settlers were killed.
1086
168 settlements are listed within the county in the Domesday Book.
1213
The first draft of Magna Carta is completed by monks at St Albans Abbey.
1217
Royalist forces plunder St Albans, taking captives and demanding £100 from the Abbot.
1624
Golf is played in the county by the Earl of Buckingham, on Therfield Heath.
1647
Soldiers from the parliamentary army camp on Thriploe Heath, demanding their wages be paid. Cromwell attacks agitators near Ware and takes a number of Levellers and soldiers prisoner, many are later hanged.
1800
The Receipt Book of Baroness Elizabeth Dimsdale of Hertford details the first ever recipe for ‘Dow nuts’.
1821
A national census records the county’s population at just under 130,000.
1839
Trains start running for the first time.
1914
Neptune Studios opens. Later renamed Elstree, it’ll go on to help film Star Wars, Harry Potter, James Bond and Strictly Come Dancing.
1920
Welwyn Garden City, a new experimental town, welcomes its first residents.
1944
The 6th Battalion of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment take part in the D-Day landings.
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