Since its inception as a civilian town by the Romans in the first century AD, London has been at the forefront of England’s passage through the ages. Indeed, London’s journey through time has seen it develop from a poorly irrigated Dark Age community into a thriving national capital and even an epicentre of Empire.

For a long time, automated garage doors were seen by many as being the preserve of people who weren’t short of a bob or two. Indeed, it is fair to say that very few properties outside of the leafy enclaves of the Home Counties were likely to have these expensive ‘luxuries’ fitted when they first came on to the scene back in the 1980s.