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Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Borehamwood. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

Skip hire in Borehamwood

As we move into the warmer, drier months of the year, many people start to think about clearing out their garages, sheds, lofts and gardens.

There is something about spring that makes us want to start again with a clean slate. We've all endured months of short, cold and dark days, where you feel like there is no time to achieve anything around the home.

A skip hired for your Borehamwood property is the perfect way to achieve this fresh start. We deliver the skip to you, you load it up and we collect it, it's really that simple.

History of Borehamwood

One of the earliest mentions of Bosci de Boreham, meaning the Wood of Boreham, is in 1188. In 1188 Pope Clement granted to the kitchen of the monastery the whole land of Elstree. He also gave to the Abbey the wood of Boreham for the feeding of the swine.

In 1776, the House of Lords granted an Act for dividing and closing the Common or Waste Ground, called Boreham Wood Common, in the Parish of Elstree, in the County of Hertford.

Borehamwood was historically part of the parish of Elstree. A separate ecclesiastical parish of "All Saints, Boreham Wood" was created on 26 February 1909, covering the part of Elstree parish east of the Midland Railway. Despite this change to the ecclesiastical boundaries, Borehamwood remained part of the civil parish of Elstree. The name of the civil parish was changed to Elstree and Borehamwood on 24 February 1982. The ecclesiastical parishes of Borehamwood and Elstree were reunited on 1 April 2005, also under the name "Elstree and Borehamwood".

From the 1920s onwards, Borehamwood became known as one of the main centres of the film, and later television industries in the United Kingdom due to the presence of production studios.

After WW2 in Borehamwood

After the Second World War, the population of Borehamwood increased rapidly, with large areas of council housing set up for Londoners that had been displaced by the Blitz, many of which are now in private ownership.

Fast train connections to central London have resulted in Borehamwood becoming a primarily residential suburb. In 1946, the Admiralty started to build highly secret high-performance electronic digital computers at Borehamwood in a redundant wartime factory, firstly for the purpose of real-time gunnery control, and later for surface-to-air guided weapons and missiles, and for specialist cryptography and code-breaking computers for GCHQ.

Borehamwood is now undergoing a substantial housing transformation which has seen hundreds of new homes built over the last few years. Two further developments are being built and more are expected. It is anticipated that green energy will be at the forefront with these new Borehamwood properties, but this remains to be seen.

In addition to the film and television studios, Borehamwood is home to many retail shops, hotels, restaurants, offices and light industry. The hotels cater mainly to tourists visiting the Elstree Studios, attendees of the television shows being recorded in the Elstree Studios, and London visitors due to the proximity to London and the considerable lower accommodation rates.

The film industry in Borehamwood

Since 1914, Borehamwood has been home to several film studios and many shots of its streets are included in final cuts of 20th century British films. This earned it the nickname of the "British Hollywood". Whilst most of these studios, collectively known as "Elstree Studios", have now closed, two still remain.

Many films were shot at the studios on Shenley Road including The Dam Busters, Star Wars, and subsequent films in the franchise, Moby Dick, Summer Holiday with Cliff Richard, and Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson, some of the Indiana Jones films. The facility was partly demolished in the 1980s to make way for a Tesco Extra supermarket on one side and an office block complex on the other.

The area between the supermarket and the office blocks is all that remains of the original studio, which has been much reduced in size and usefulness to production companies as a result. The Shenley Road Studios were later used for the TV series Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Big Brother, as well as several major feature films. The Inspector Morse series production offices were based in the studios and, although the series was set in Oxford, several exterior locations were filmed in the streets of Borehamwood.

The former British National Studios off Clarendon Road, referred to locally as "The Douglas Fairbanks studios" are now the BBC Elstree Centre. The studios have, over the years, been home to Alfred Hitchcock's film Blackmail, Jim Henson's TV series The Muppet Show was also produced there, and now BBC's popular soap, EastEnders and their medical drama Holby City. An episode of Judge John Deed included scenes of the Tesco Extra, but with Borehamwood crossed out and Lewes written in its place.

Many local trades support the studios, with carpenters and painters and decorators earning above average salaries for ongoing contracts on the sets of various productions.

Several other studios including the Gate Studios and the Danziger Studios at nearby Elstree have been demolished. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios complex saw the production of many films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as well as ITV television series such as The Prisoner.

The newer Millennium Studios were situated on Elstree Way, Borehamwood.

Save time and money with skip hire in Borehamwood

You certainly don't have to be a movie mogul to afford a skip for your Borehamwood property. Our prices are very competitive and the hiring process couldn't be any simpler.

You'll save money and masses of time when you hire a skip from us. We will deliver it directly to your Borehamwood property, so you can start filling it straight away.

Best of all, at least ninety five percent of your waste will be recycled. What's not to like?

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Borehamwood:

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Waste Recycling
Waste Management
Envirowaste Recycling Centre
Waste Disposal
Domestic and Commercial Skip Hire
Licensed Waste Carriers
Environment Agency Approved
Skip Permits Arranged
Same Day Drop Off and Collection
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Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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Graveley
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