5★★★★★Google rating288+verified reviews13years independent, since 20132024 PCC Community Volunteer of the YearThe number on the van is Bugsy's. He answers it himself, day or night.
Response
Often under 30 minutes from our Waterside base
Postcodes
SO42
Qualified
NCFE Level 4
Rating
5.0 ★, 288+ reviews
Call-out fee
£0, ever
Hours
24/7, weekends & bank holidays
No job too small. From a jammed uPVC door to a full insurance lock change after a break-in, here’s what we get called for across Beaulieu.
Regular call-outs near National Motor Museum, Beaulieu Abbey, Palace House, Bucklers Hard and Beaulieu River. We’re not a national chain reading off a postcode, Bugsy lives and works here, drives a van everyone recognises, and answers the phone himself.
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Founder, Keywise 24hr Locksmiths. Family-run on the SO45 Waterside.
This advice comes from a working locksmith, not a content writer. Bugsy answers his own phone, and was named the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner's 2024 Community Volunteer of the Year. 5.0 from 288 Google reviews.
Call 07453 327708These are actual Keywise locksmith van photos taken on jobs in Beaulieu and the surrounding postcodes. Not stock imagery, this is Bugsy, the van, and the work.
“Great service from Don (Bugsy) today sorting a problem with multipoint lock on our side door. Easy and very responsive communication via WhatsApp, Don arrived promptly and quickly determined cause of the problem and fitted the…”
“Don (Bugsy) is a really nice guy who does an honest, professional job at a good price. He fitted a new window handle and lock, plus sorted out our garage access door which didn't lock (…”
“Thanks Bugsy! I called and asked if he would visit my elder and quite vulnerable father, he was there within 20 mins and started a video call for the whole time. We want the locks changed…”
Founder, Keywise 24hr Locksmiths. Family-run on the SO45 Waterside since 2013.
Everyone round here calls me Bugsy, and I still answer my own phone, day or night. I got into this trade because I could not stand hearing how people were treated at the worst moment, locked out, broken into, or a door that failed when they needed it most, and then charged the earth for it. So I do it the other way. I tell you straight what a job needs and what it does not, I fix rather than replace where I can, and I never add a call-out fee or VAT. In 2024 the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner named me Community Volunteer of the Year, and that one meant the most, because it came from the community I work in. No call centre, no script, just me and the van.
Perfect 5.0 across 288+ Google reviews, the highest-rated independent family-run locksmith in Southampton. No call-out fee, ever. Most jobs reached inside 30 minutes.
Just outside Beaulieu? Bugsy covers these too:
Whatever the lock job, here is what I am called out for most:
No, never. There is no call-out fee anywhere in Beaulieu or the wider Waterside, day or night. You get the price before any work starts, with no VAT on top.
Most Beaulieu call-outs are reached in around 30 minutes. Bugsy is family-run and based on the Waterside, so you get someone genuinely local rather than a van sent from miles away.
Almost always. Non-destructive entry is the first thing we try, so most doors in Beaulieu are opened with no drilling and no broken lock, which saves you the cost of a replacement.
Yes, that is one of our most common jobs in Beaulieu. It is usually the multipoint gearbox, the handle or the alignment rather than the whole door, and we carry the common parts on the van.
A real local one. Bugsy answers the phone himself and covers Beaulieu in person. We hold a perfect 5.0 Google rating across 288 plus reviews and a 2024 Police and Crime Commissioner community award.
Just as local to these. Same day, no call-out fee.
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