Phoenix Safe Company is one of the oldest UK manufacturers of safes and security products and can trace its history back to Liverpool in 1799. In the current time we are a European leader in Fire & Security safes, with Office and warehousing in UK, Germany, France and Spain. This allows Phoenix to cover the whole of Europe with fast reliable delivery and back up service.
We are now established as a leader in the manufacture and distribution of a range of state of the art safes to suit all requirements, ranging from residential home safes to commercial security and fire protection. We specialise in vital records protection for both paper and digital media forms. Our products are kept in stock and will normally ship same day from receipt of order. All of our fire and Security resistant safes are independently tested to European standards. All fireproof safes and cabinets carry a life-time after-the-fire replacement warranty. We welcome the opportunity to help you secure your most important items!
Back History of Phoenix Safe
Back in 1799 the company was known as the Richmond Safe Co Ltd and was supplying the maritime trade between England and the United States with iron banded or iron clad wooden strongboxes and seamen’s chests.
In 1723 a group of migrant steel workers from the Toledo area of Spain, were working their passage to the United States, with the intention to sail from Liverpool to New York. They joined Richmond Safe Co Ltd where their skills with steel were put to good use replacing the traditional wooden strongboxes with all steel reinforced strongbox’s. The demand for these new secure strongboxes grew with the increasing wealth and expansion of the maritime role of Liverpool as the major English port shipping goods and commodities to the United States in return for cotton for the Lancashire cotton mills.
The company was renamed in 1850, the Withy Grove Stores and began to design and patent steel safes, strongboxes, fire safes and vaults many of which are still in use today.
They became, with the famous Milners Safe Company of Liverpool, among the best known British safe manufacturers from the 1850s through to the 1970’s, when rationalisation of the safe industry led to the loss of many of the traditional manufacturers.
The tradition of patented and innovative security continued in 1986, when Phoenix Safe Co was formed from Withy Grove Stores Co Ltd and adopted one of the oldest names in the British safe industry Phoenix. The aim was to design and manufacture advanced fire resistant safes to protect the new wealth of data information being produced by computers. The vital importance and catastrophic consequences of the loss of this information demanded a new approach to fire protection. Temperature as low as 60ºC can corrupt data stored disks or tapes and with fire temperatures in excess of 1000ºC it was imperative to provide a modern safe for the protection of data media. This resulted in the first Phoenix data safe the 2000 series which protects data against fire for up to 2 hours at a temperature of 1090ºC, while at the same time maintaining a temperature inside the safe of only 39ºC. Over the following years Phoenix broadened our range of security products to include Home safes, High Security Safes, gun cabinets, filing cabinets, key boxes, laptop and tablet security.
