Apart from the more mundane [yet practical] uses we find for self storage, there some extremely interesting items chilling in storage units. Popular shows about the contents of self storage units and containers have awoken people’s interest in the secret world of storage. Even many celebs utilise these handy spaces to keep their weird and wonderful items and collections.

Million Dollar Comic

Celebs like Nicholas Cage is famously an avid reader and collector of comic books [everyone to his own] which is why he must have been gutted to be burgled in 2000. He possessed a first edition copy of Action Classics worth £1 million dollars that was stolen. There is a happy ending to this story though, when 10 years later it was found in an abandoned self storage container.

Hidden Bond Car

In 1989, somebody purchased a storage container with contents at a Long Island auction, and got a bit of a surprise on opening it. Contained inside was the original Lotus Submarine Car used by Roger Moore in Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. A little dented and with a few missing tyres, the impressive vehicle was restored and shown in various museum exhibitions for 24 years. It was finally sold to Elon Musk in 2013 for £616,000.

Rocket in Space

How about the storage unit auctioned off in Florida which contained a NASA rocket and countdown clock. The items were placed in storage after a space programme was discontinued. Then there are the garments of soul diva Aretha Franklin, found in a unit in Michigan. They say the clothes were placed there following a fire at her home, then probably forgotten about.

These are just a few examples of the fascinating tales of self storage units and containers, contact Cubic Storage if you have anything you want to store. We cater to customers all over the North East in places like Jarrow, North Shields, Whitley Bay and Tynemouth.

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Apparently many universities and further education establishments are trying to tempt students back with promises of a sort of pre-Covid student life. Statements offer a ‘totally open campus’ or an experience ‘much more like usual’. This isn’t really working though, as many students and academics believe a more realistic picture should be portrayed. They think that there should be no glossing over of the fact that continued disruption to classes and social life is likely.

The attitude of the universities is kind of understandable though, as competition to attract students will be particularly fierce this year. Many smaller institutions fear that the more acclaimed universities will once again expand and snaffle the majority of students. After all, the £9,250 that each student pays is not to be sneezed at. Universities such as University College London, Sheffield University, Edinburgh University and Ulster University tell students to expect ‘blended’ learning. This means online lectures where possible and reduced in-person workshops or seminars.

But some university websites make hardly any mention of the pandemic, or simply say that the next academic year could look very similar to pre-Covid years. Of course this is what a lot of students want to hear, and who can blame them! Professor Karen Stanton, vice-chancellor of Solent University, Southampton says: “We have exciting plans in place to bring all our students back to campus in the ‘new normal’ we’ll be facing.”

However, professor of higher education at the University of Oxford, Simon Marginson, says institutions who are struggling might be tempted to tell students what they think they want to hear. “They will pitch it as normal or near normal higher education in term 1 of 2021-22,” he says. “After the experience of the current academic year, we know this is unfair to students.” Professor Marginson says universities will probably end up having to offer online as well as face to face learning, and students may be once again faced with studying in their bedrooms.

Don’t forget if you’re studying and in need of affordable storage space in Gosforth, Cubic Storage are bound to have the exact unit or container you require!

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