Out with the old, in with the new

September 2014

Don’t panic! You won’t have to travel further for your honey on a Saturday morning because luckily we’ve only moved across the yard. For those of you who visited our old shop, or as we liked to call it ‘the cave’ will know how much of an important move this is for us.  It was given the nickname ‘the cave’ by our costumers due to the damp walls and distinct lack of daylight. There weren’t even any places for Teal to stretch out in the sun!

Our old shop just wasn’t large enough for our business to grow and we didn’t have enough office, packing, and bottling space so it was very much a case of making use of what we’d got even if it wasn’t the most efficient way of doing things. Finally, after 3 years, we were ready to move in to this extraordinary new space under a railway arch in the same industrial estate in Bermondsey.  Here we now have a large office upstairs, shelving to store honey, separate bottling and packing rooms with drainage in the middle to keep things clean and tidy. A freezer which can be used to store honey boxes to protect against wax moth, shop space at the front and lots more. 

All this new, efficient and useful space is perfect for helping our business to grow. We have also been awarded a Food Hygiene Rating of 5 out of 5 for our new warehouse. I think it’s safe to say we all prefer the railway arch to the cold, dark depths of the cave. Although, it served us well and shall not be forgotten.