Man and Van Lewisham
From split Victorian terraces off the High Street to student rooms at New Cross, TowManVan moves SE13 with fixed pricing and DBS-checked drivers.
TowManVan runs man and van across Lewisham SE13 and the SE4, SE6, SE8 and SE23 borders from £35 an hour. Drivers plan shared-entrance conversion moves, work around the town-centre one-way system, and cover the New Cross student runs. The price is fixed in the app before you confirm, two-hour minimum.
Shared front-door coordination, Goldsmiths June and September peaks, Deptford High Street collections, SE4, SE6, SE8, SE14 and SE23 borders covered. Average arrival 24 minutes.
Services in Lewisham
Fixed upfront prices. No membership fees. Live operator tracking across every postcode in Lewisham.
Small Van
Transit-sized van for single rooms, studios and student moves around New Cross, plus single-item collections off Deptford High Street. DBS-checked driver. 2-hour minimum.
Man and Van in Lewisham - What You Need to Know
One Front Door, Four Flats - How a Lewisham Conversion Move Actually Works
Most of Lewisham's rental stock is Victorian terrace that was carved into flats decades ago, and the detail that catches people out is not the staircase, it is the door. Four households can share one entrance, one narrow communal hall and one original stairway that was never meant to be a public corridor. On moving day that hall belongs to everybody: the ground-floor tenant's bike, somebody's pushchair, a stack of parcels, a landing too tight to turn a mattress on. The moves that run smoothly are the ones where the hall is cleared first and the neighbours know a van is coming. TowManVan drivers ask two things at booking for SE13, SE4 and SE6 conversions: which floor, and is the entrance shared. If it is, we set a start time that misses the school run and the shift change, bring blankets and wedges for the communal woodwork, and keep one person with the van so the front door is never propped open and unattended. That last part also protects your money: scuffed communal paintwork is exactly what an end-of-tenancy inventory picks up, and it gets charged to whoever moved that week.
Goldsmiths and New Cross - The Two Months That Book Out First
Goldsmiths, University of London sits at New Cross in SE14, minutes up the road from Lewisham town centre, and its calendar shapes a large slice of local moving demand. Two peaks dominate. June empties halls and student houses as tenancies end, and September fills them again, which means the same fortnight sees hundreds of people trying to shift a bed, a desk and eight boxes on the same weekend. The jobs themselves are small: single rooms, part loads, one person moving out of a four-bed share while the other three stay put. That is small van territory at £35/hr on the two-hour minimum, occasionally a medium if a year's worth of accumulation has crept in. Student housing spreads well beyond SE14, into Brockley, Deptford, Ladywell and increasingly Catford, so the runs are usually short hops within the borough rather than cross-London hauls. Two practical points: book the June and September weekends early because they fill first, and if you are moving out of a room in a shared house, say so at booking so the driver arrives expecting stairs and one room's worth rather than a whole flat.
Deptford High Street - Market Finds, Second-Hand Furniture and the Single-Item Job
Deptford High Street and its market give SE8 something most of south east London lost years ago: a working street trade in independent shops, junk stalls and second-hand and vintage furniture. People come from across the city for it, arrive by train or DLR, buy a mid-century sideboard or a solid pine table, and then face the obvious problem. That is why single-item collection is one of the busiest bookings on this page. A small van from £35/hr covers most of it: send the pickup point and the delivery address in the app, the driver wraps the piece properly, straps it rather than wedging it, and it goes anywhere across SE13, SE4, SE6, SE8 or SE23 the same day. Goods in transit are insured to a minimum of £10,000, which matters more on an irreplaceable second-hand find than on a flat-pack wardrobe. Timing is worth a thought: the High Street is genuinely busy on market days, so a mid-morning or later-afternoon slot usually means less waiting on the kerb and a shorter carry to the van. Local sellers count too, and plenty of these jobs are marketplace pickups a few streets away.
The Roundabout in the Middle - SE13 Out to Catford, Brockley and Forest Hill
Every Lewisham move eventually meets the town centre. The roundabout and one-way system beside Lewisham Shopping Centre is the borough's best-known pinch point, and with the A20 and A21 both running through, the High Street market trading alongside, and Lewisham station working as a DLR terminus and a national rail interchange for London Bridge, Cannon Street and Charing Cross services, the traffic there is a fact of life rather than a surprise. Our drivers plan around it: mid-morning starts rather than 8am, loading from the quieter side streets off the High Street, and a route out chosen before the van is loaded rather than after. Beyond the centre the borough changes character quickly. SE13 and SE4 Brockley are flat and conversion country, small and medium van work with stairs. Head south to SE6 Catford and Bellingham or south west to SE23 Forest Hill and it becomes family-house territory where a Luton and a helper make more sense. East towards the SE3 Blackheath border the houses get larger and older again, and SE8 Deptford brings the collections. One price list covers all of it.
Lewisham postcodes we cover
Same fixed price across every area. No postcode surcharge.
Reviews from Lewisham
“Top-floor flat in a converted terrace with one front door for four flats. He rang ahead, we cleared the hall, and the whole thing was done without a mark on the communal walls. Got my full deposit back.”
“Moved my room out of a Goldsmiths house share into a place near Brockley station. Small van, two hours, done. Half what the removals firms quoted for what was basically a bed and boxes.”
“Bought a huge old sideboard on Deptford High Street with no way of getting it home. Booked in the app, he was there in half an hour, wrapped it like it was made of glass. Not a scratch.”
“Full house move with the Luton and a second helper. They started at ten to miss the worst of the town centre traffic and still finished by mid-afternoon. Price was exactly what the app said at booking.”
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Last updated August 2026.
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Average arrival 24 min · Small van from £35/hr · Luton from £60/hr · No membership