Bee supplies in Kent or Surrey

[a100sam]

Dear all,

I urgently need to buy a National hive, already made-up. Can anyone suggest somewhere in Kent or Surrey I could buy one complete? I work in Bexley in Kent and I need to buy one tomorrow morning en-route to work. I live in Buckinghamshire and travel along the M25.

Cheers

Sam

 

[farbee]

Could try East Surrey Bees in Whyteleafe. Google it they have a web site.
Just curious, but why the rush?

 

[curry756]

Dear all,

I urgently need to buy a National hive, already made-up. Can anyone suggest somewhere in Kent or Surrey I could buy one complete? I work in Bexley in Kent and I need to buy one tomorrow morning en-route to work. I live in Buckinghamshire and travel along the M25.

Cheers

Sam

Park beekeeping in blackheath. Only 20-30 mins away from Bexley. I live in bexleyheath so you work just round corner.

 

[Jaytee]

You could try http://www.honey-bees-etc.co.uk/index.html though not sure he'll have a made up hive but worth a try or http://www.bbha.biz/

 

[curry756]

Also curious - why the rush

 

[itma]

Park in Blackheath offer a readymade option. (I think they are Maisemores, from the wooden 'rails'.)

But Paynes polys are readymade, and can usually offer next-day delivery.

 

[a100sam]

I have a hive in a school I work in. I was called by my site manager who said "your bees have escaped and are hanging from a tree". Why is it that now I have a hive in the field in a 33acre site any bees that appear in the vicinity must be mine? Lol!!! As the swarm was low hanging and causing havoc with my primary school aged kids I lopped off the branch into a box, but the only spare hive I had is a nuc box, which isn't big enough! I put in a couple of frames of brood and some fresh comb and hoped for the best. So my plan is to re-hive them into a full national before they decide to swarm again.

 

[itma]

Not even any spare supers and ekes you can cobble together to be tall enough?
A floor is optional, as long as there is an entrance, and a roof can be anything - plastic sheeting or even just an opened-out binbag.

Anyway, I suspect that if they stay 24 hours in the nuc, they'll stay longer. Brood should help to anchor them, but feeding can simply refuel them for absconding.

 

[curry756]

Park in Blackheath offer a readymade option. (I think they are Maisemores, from the wooden 'rails'.)

But Paynes polys are readymade, and can usually offer next-day delivery.

Yes they are maisemore hives. They also have poly's too.

 

[Davea]

Thornes in Windsor is not too far from M25/M4