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Postal coverage · Southwick

Data recovery for Southwick. A Brighton address in West Sussex.

Southwick had 12,236 residents at the 2021 census, sits in Adur and in West Sussex, and posts under a Brighton address. Along its southern side runs the Southwick basin of Shoreham Port; to the north the A27 goes round through Southwick Hill Tunnel, bored rather than cut so the hill was left whole. What reaches us from here is mostly commercial.

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What the Southwick estates send us.

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The problem as describedWhy it's a local regularFirst thing we do
A freight forwarder's customs recordsManifests and clearances that have to be produced years afterwardsImaged first, read second
One NAS in one unit, no second copyThe standard shape of a small tenant on the port estateEvery disk, labelled by bay
A condition-monitoring PC from the power stationPlant data that only means anything as a long runPost the disk, not the cabinet
A marine surveyor's laptop and its photographsSurvey notes from the basin and the Southwick Reef workTell us which folder matters
A weighbridge or haulage office driveTonnage, tickets and timings, written down nowhere elseLeave it switched off until it ships
Sending it over: post your device tracked and fully insured to our secure intake lab — free return postage — with our shipping form in the box. Full packing drill on the contact details.

How a Southwick job runs.

A port town that files everythingShoreham Port, whose Southwick basin runs the length of the town, reported turnover of £22.1 million in 2025 — 8.2% up on 2024, with tonnage 3% higher and thirteen new tenants. Cargo, customs and haulage all leave records somebody eventually asks for.
The power station is here, not at ShorehamShoreham Power Station stands at Southwick despite its name: a combined-cycle gas turbine plant commissioned in summer 2000 on the site of the old coal-fired Shoreham B, and owned by VPI since February 2021. Its chimney is 106 metres.
BN42 in one sentenceBN42 lies wholly inside Adur, in West Sussex, and posts as Brighton. Next door, BN41 contrives to sit in two district areas at once. Neither fact changes what a drive costs to read.
What you are quoted is what you payFree diagnosis, one written figure agreed before anything is touched, and no fee on most jobs. Files return on fresh media with the postage paid. Where a drive must be opened, half of that figure is asked at the start.

Southwick questions, answered plainly.

Why does my Southwick address say Brighton?

Because BN42 takes Brighton as its post town while sitting wholly inside Adur, in West Sussex. It confuses couriers more than it confuses us. Write the postcode clearly and the parcel behaves itself.

We are a tenant on the port estate with one NAS. What do we send?

All of the disks, marked with the bay numbers they came from, or the whole unit, because a NAS may be posted complete. A server or a RAID set goes as bare disks only. No phones and no tablets.

The weighbridge PC will not start. Is that recoverable?

Normally yes, provided nobody has tried to repair the file system first. Leave it switched off, and post the drive rather than the machine it sits in. It is imaged on DeepSpar hardware before anything is read.

How soon do we know where we stand?

Diagnosis is free and we tell you either way. One fixed written quote follows. Memory cards and sticks begin at £250; one drive is £300; a recorder is £400; a multi-disk job begins at £500. Add VAT to each.

Southwick sends one box; the rest is ours.

Power the device down, tell us what happened, and let the diagnosis be free before any decision has to be.

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