With a car trailer and two 4’ x 4’ steel towers the business began as a part-time hire company operated from Keith’s home in Longford, Gloucester. When Keith's younger son Mark left school in the summer of 1973 he became the first full-time employee. The introduction of industrial alloy towers (an innovation from the U.S.A.) led to rapid growth and it soon became impractical to operate efficiently from a series of lock-up garages on a total of six sites!

The entire operation moved to India Road, Gloucester during 1976 and Lansford continued to build on its solid reputation for high quality service and reliability - a rarity in the scaffolding business!

In April 1980 Keith's elder son Stephen left teaching to launch a new sales department. This development was the reason for changing the company name to Lansford Access Ltd. Larger premises were soon required and eighteen months later Lansford were on the move again to modern industrial premises off Eastern Avenue, Gloucester. In 1989 the national sales office was opened in Bristol.

Despite the lean, recession-plagued years of the early 1990s Lansford survived where many others perished and the sales department has developed into a major national distributor of ladders, steps and scaffold towers. Very few companies in the ladder and scaffold tower business have the experience or expertise of Lansford Access and we strive to maintain our reputation for the highest quality service and reliability.

This web site should have shown you that we provide not only the finest service but have used our experience to offer probably the widest choice of ladders, steps and scaffold towers from a single supplier in the U.K.