Bell & Sons Removals
Solid evidence on the essentials. The questions below matter more than usual with this company.
Unit 73a The Whittle Estate, Cambridge Road, Whetstone, Leicester LE8 6LH
Before you book
Worth asking before you pay a deposit. The answers take two minutes on the phone and make the written quote stronger.
- Ask for the cover amount in writingthe company is a British Association of Removers member, so request the policy schedule, the amounts and the excess before you pay a deposit.
- Ask what the written quote holdsthe price, the rate if the job runs long, and how long the quote stays valid, since no removals prices are published on the site.
- Confirm the day-of crewthe crew size, the arrival window and who your contact is on the day.
- Completion dateask how availability is held against it and what happens if contracts exchange late.
- Containerised storageif you plan to store, ask how it is charged, how access works and what the inventory process covers.
- Date changesask how changes and cancellations are handled at each stage of the booking.
- Parking and accessconfirm both at each address so the survey covers them.
Verification summary
Every item is independently verified from public records unless marked “advertised” - those are claims the company makes that we could not confirm from the outside.
Key facts
| Legal name | P.K. Bell Limited |
| Company number | 05124040 |
| Incorporated | 10 May 2004 |
| Status | Active |
| Address | Unit 73a The Whittle Estate, Cambridge Road, Whetstone, Leicester LE8 6LH |
| Phone | 0116 284 1085 |
| Website | bellandsons.co.uk |
| Areas | Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rugby and the wider East Midlands |
| Storage | Secure containerised storage at a Leicestershire depot (advertised) |
| BAR membership | BAR member, per the public member directory (number C041), read 25 Aug 2026 |
| Trading name | Bell & Sons Removals is a trading name of P.K. Bell Ltd |
| “Established in 1986” claim | Site says the founder has been in removals since 1986, forming Bell & Sons in 1997; the limited company incorporated 2004 |
| Founder | Philip Bell, director and company secretary since 10 May 2004 |
| SIC code | 49420 - Removal services |
| ADR scheme | Site states it adheres to the BAR Alternative Dispute Resolution scheme, operated by The Furniture Ombudsman |
What reviewers report
| Platform | Score | Reviews | One and two-star |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 / 5 | 532 | 10 of 532 (10 one-star, 0 two-star) | |
| Trustpilot | 4.2 / 5 | 22 | 3 of 22 (2 one-star, 1 two-star) |
What people love about this company
We read the full negative tail on both platforms end to end via DataForSEO on 25 August 2026: on Google, the 100 most recent reviews plus every one-star, three-star and four-star review (128 unique reviews read); on Trustpilot, all 22 reviews because the total corpus is under 100. Every owner reply we could read was read too.
Across 554 reviews read in August 2026 (532 on Google at 4.9 out of 5 and 22 on Trustpilot at 4.2), 97 per cent rate four or five stars, and 9 of the 13 one and two star reviews carry a company reply. The praise names crews and office staff individually, video call surveys, items returned from storage, and patience when a completion slips. The low star reviews cluster around availability close to moving day. Reviews arrive steadily: the 100 most recent Google reviews fall between December 2025 and August 2026.
Figures aggregate every review we read on 25 August 2026; we publish the pattern, not individual reviews.Identity check
Match three things before you book: company number 05124040, phone 0116 284 1085, and the Unit 73a The Whittle Estate, Cambridge Road, Whetstone, Leicester LE8 6LH address. The site footer prints all three together as Company Registered No. 5124040 with the phone and postcode in the same block (bellandsons.co.uk footer, read 7 November 2026), noting that the footer drops the leading zero the register uses, and Companies House shows the company Active at that same Leicester address (read 7 November 2026), with the same triple already cross-checked against Google and the BAR record on 25 August 2026. Domain probes on 7 November 2026: bellandsons.co.uk is the company's site, bellandsons.com resolves to a Michigan food service and equipment supplier called Bell and Sons with no connection to this firm, and bellandsonsremovals.co.uk, bell-sons-removals.co.uk and bellandsonsremovals.com hold no DNS record. A Companies House name search for Bell and Sons Removals and for Bell Removals read 7 November 2026 found no other live removal company trading under the Bell name; the only Bell removals entry was Maitland Bell Removals Limited, dissolved 31 December 2024 at a London address and unrelated to this Leicester firm. The complication is the naming itself: the van, the website and the reviews all say Bell and Sons Removals while the register says P.K. Bell Limited, so match the number rather than the name.
FAQ
Is Bell & Sons Removals legit?
Yes, as far as public records show. Removal Dude independently verified 7 facts about Bell & Sons Removals against outside sources: the public record and public review platforms. Bell & Sons Removals appears at Companies House under company number 05124040, incorporated 10 May 2004. Removal Dude's published verdict for Bell & Sons Removals is "Book - ask these questions", last checked 25 August 2026.
Is Bell & Sons Removals insured?
Bell & Sons Removals advertises goods in transit insurance, but insurance on this listing is an advertised claim, not an independently verified fact. The UK has no public register of removals insurance, so no outside checker can confirm cover from records alone. Before booking, ask for the policy schedule itself: policy number, what it covers, the amount, valid on your moving date. Any firm can say it is fully insured; the schedule is the proof.
How good are Bell & Sons Removals reviews?
Here is what the public review platforms show for Bell & Sons Removals: Google shows 4.9 / 5 from 532 reviews, and 10 of them are rated one or two stars. Trustpilot shows 4.2 / 5 from 22 reviews, and 3 of them are rated one or two stars. Across those platforms, 13 of the 554 reviews we read are rated one or two stars as of 25 August 2026.