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A mover carrying a boxed load past two hand trolleys outside a house

The firm

Third generation. Same yard.

Fifty-eight years of moving Leeds, and the kettle in the office has never once been packed.

Since 1968

One Bedford TK and a book of names.

Ray Harker started with a single Bedford TK, a borrowed trolley and a notebook of addresses, working the terraces off Pontefract Lane. What got the firm its second van wasn't advertising — it was that Ray quoted a figure, and the figure held.

His son Keith containerised the warehouse in the eighties, when 250 cubic feet of sealed timber became the trade's honest answer to "where do my things actually go?" Today Ray's grandchildren run it: Dan on the road, Ellie on the surveys, five vehicles on the yard.

The rule hasn't changed in three generations: the price is in writing, the crew turns up at eight, and nobody signs anything until they've walked every room.

A mid-century transfer and storage van, photographed in black and white
The trade as Ray learned it: a mid-century transfer-and-storage van. Archive photograph — credited in IMAGE-CREDITS.md.
58years on the same Cross Green yard
5vehicles, Luton to 18-tonne
600+moves a year, most within an hour of the depot
120storage containers under our own roof

The crew

Who turns up at eight.

No stock portraits pretending to be us. These are the names on the waybill.

Dan Harker

Director · third generation

Twenty-two years on the road, HGV Class 2. Still takes the first lift of every piano job.

Ellie Harker

Moves manager

Runs every survey and writes every quote. If the figure's wrong, it's her phone that rings — so it isn't.

Mick Turner

Foreman

Thirty-one years' service. Load-plans a 3-bed in his head on the walk from the cab to the door.

Bella

Yard dog

Head of warehouse security. Inspects every container and most sandwiches.

Inside a removal van: folded transit blankets stacked ready, with the yard dog sitting beside them
Transit blankets folded for the morning — under Bella's supervision.

The kit

Blankets, boards and straps — not bravado.

Every van carries transit blankets, sofa and mattress covers, wardrobe cartons, a piano board and floor protection as standard. The difference between a careful move and a lucky one is equipment, and we'd rather carry it than chance it.

What a move includes
You watch them strap the load and you realise it's a craft. My grandmother's dresser crossed Leeds without a rattle.
Joan W. · 2-bed bungalow · Halton to Otley

Next step

Meet us down the lens of your phone.

Fifteen minutes of video survey, a fixed written quote by the next working day. That's the whole ask.

Book a video survey 0113 245 0968