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Masons Self Storage and Barry Athletic Bowling Club sign-up for a second year’s partnership!

Masons Self Storage are delighted that they will be renewing their sponsorship with Barry Athletic Bowling Club for the new season. The sponsorship will allow the club to provide embroidered playing jackets to all club members for the coming season. Commenting on the sponsorship arrangements, club chairman Richard Bowen said “the club were delighted with

Masons Self Storage Supports Penarth Yacht Club

Masons Self Storage is only 5 miles from Penarth and many of our home and business storage customers are Penarth residents. As a result, we feel very much part of this wonderful, local community and are always looking for ways to benefit it, from supporting local veteran’s charity, Woody’s Lodge to the sponsoring of Bethan

Is there really such thing as Divorce Day?

Did you know that every year, online searches for ‘divorce’ spike in January, with roughly 25% more searches taking place than any other time of the year? Divorce support service, Amicable, estimate that this January, more than 40,500 Google searches for divorce will take place. In fact, over the past decade, the first working Monday

Masons Self Storage kicks 2018 off with a bang!

Here at Masons Self Storage, we have kicked off the new year with a bang and are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been nominated for not one, but two(!) Business Growth Awards South Wales. We are finalists in both the Innovation and Home, Garden & Lifestyle award categories! The Business Growth Awards South

Back to Back with Bethan Elfyn in Penarth View

We’re really excited to announce that after a successful new feature ‘Bethan Elfyn Presents’ in the Penarth View autumn edition, that Bethan’s feature with a spotlight on everything there is to do in Penarth is back in the winter edition and we’re sponsoring the segment once again. We don’t want to give too much away,

Christmas Opening Hours

All of the staff at The Masons Group, and Woody’s Lodge, wish our customers a joyous festive season and a very happy New Year, 2018. Mason’s Self Storage facilities can be accessed 24/7 by it’s customers, and the office opening times, during the holiday period, will be as follows: Christmas and New Year Office opening

Preparing for Christmas with Masons Self Storage

Winter is definitely here which means it’s time to take those jumpers and heavier duvets out of storage and say goodbye to our lighter, summer wardrobe! Keeping your out-of-season wardrobe in self storage is a great way to save space in your bedroom if you’re tight on space and want to maintain some order and

Join the Fish Supper at Penarth Lifeboat Station

Our friends at Penarth Lifeboat Station need your help. As part of Penarth Fashion Week, they have arranged an amazing dinner created by Wales’ leading, and Cardiff and the Vale’s only, Michelin Star Chef, James Sommerin in support of the RNLI. This very special Fish Supper will be held on Sunday 15 October, 2017 at

Bethan Elfyn presents in Penarth View

Here at Masons Self Storage, we’re always looking for new and exciting ways to get involved and support our local community, from supporting the fantastic team over at Barry Athletics to sponsoring Belle Vue Music in the Park Festival in Penarth this summer. Which is why we’re really excited to get involved with the amazing

Masons Top ‘Spring Cleaning’ Tips

Although it’s called spring cleaning, the end of the summer holidays is just as good a time as any to sort through your belongings and give the house a freshening up. Perhaps we could all take a leaf out of Marie Kondo’s ground-breaking book ‘The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up’. Marie Kondo is a

Student accommodation: what to expect

Moving out of home for the first time is exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time! But you’ve got your A Level results now and have received your confirmed place at university, so it’s time to think about your accommodation for October! Whether you’ve got a place in halls secured or you’re trying to

Dinas Powys 10s Vets Tournament

It’s all happening in Dinas Powys this weekend.  In addition to the Dinas Powys Family Fun Day and Dog Show on Bank Holiday Monday there will be another fantastic event taking place at Dinas Powys RFC on Sunday 27th August from 1pm. Dinas Powys Rugby Club is hosting the 10s Vets Tournament in support of Leighton Dutton, and in conjunction

Dinas Powys Family Fun Day Festival

Masons Self Storage Centre Manager, and Dinas Powys resident, John Walsh, has told us about this exciting Family Fun Day and Dog Show, and we wanted to share it with you. It’s taking place on Dinas Powys common this coming Bank Holiday Monday, the 28th August, and promises to be a truly fun family day

Mason’s Top Tips for Packing for Your Summer Holiday!

Summer is well underway, so here at Masons, the experts in packing and packing supplies, we thought we would turn our hand to a different type of packing and bring you some tips of our own on how to pack for that last minute summer holiday. Whether you’re packing for a solo adventure or a

Summer is sizzling at Barry Athletic Bowls Club

Summer has arrived at the Barry Athletic Bowls Club! The sun is high in the sky and the Bowls season is off to a flying start! Since we started sponsoring the two Bowls teams at Barry Athletic Bowls Club back in April, we love keeping up to date with the busy club encouraging players of

Penarth’s Belle Vue Music in the Park Festival returns this Summer!

We are thrilled to be sponsoring this year’s Belle Vue Music in the Park Festival in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on 9th July 2017! The music festival has become increasingly popular over the past few years and this year is set to have record attendance. We will be sponsoring this fun day out for all

Zokit Business Awards – Finalist

We are very excited to have been nominated as a finalist in the 2017 Zokit Business Awards in the Innovative Dynamo category! Here at Masons Self Storage, we work hard to ensure that we are consistently at the forefront of our industry and providing our customers with an easy and unforgettable self storage experience. At

Barry Athletic off to a flying start

As seen on page 28 of The Gem, 11 May 2017, Barry Athletic took receipt of their sponsored club jackets from Mason’s Self Storage ahead of their warm up preparations for their Carruther’s Shield fixtures. Gordon Mason (Director) along with James and our manager John Walsh presented team captain Glyn Thomas and Michael Vaughan with

Try a New Sport in the Vale of Glamorgan

Supporting Sport in the Vale of Glamorgan – Don’t fancy rugby or football, then try your hand at Bowls and open up your world to an International sporting career… When you think about Bowls, what do you imagine? Not the crockery, the sport. Perhaps you don’t even consider it a sport? Maybe you’re thinking about

Stories from the Store 3

Meet Mabel! Now this isn’t exactly Storage news, but it is news that Charlotte and I are really excited to share with you! We have adopted a cat! Meet Mabel Mason, the latest addition to our little family. Mabel is 10 years old and gorgeous! Her previous owner was an elderly lady who unfortunately passed

Stories from the Store 2

What a week it was last week for me and Charlotte at our humble Barry abode, and no doubt for most of you around the Vale of Glamorgan too. Not only was it pancakes galore for Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday) and Welsh Cakes hot off the stone for St Davids Day (thanks to Mel Griffiths at

Supporting Rugby in the Vale of Glamorgan

The 6 Nations Rugby is well underway, but Wales’ coach Rob Howley conceded his side’s title hopes are over. It’s not all bad news in Welsh rugby however, our local team: Dinas Powis Rugby Club is currently at the top of their league! With another great victory against Abercynon recently, putting them 3 points clear

Stories from the Store 1

Hello and Welcome to Stories from the Store! I’m James, the Marketing Manager for Masons Self Storage! Together, Charlotte, and I will share our stories from our adventures around the Vale of Glamorgan. We both grew up, went to school and now live in Barry and we absolutely love living in the Vale and benefitting

Move & Store Blog

Masons Self Storage are constantly working hard to make our storage services more convenient for our customer’s wide variety of self storage needs, which is why we’re so excited to announce our brand new Mobile Move & Store service which is a totally unique service that offers a highly professional removal service combined with a