Our pride. Your joy since 1994
Established over 30 years ago, Castle Coachworks is a Northamptonshire based independent specialist body shop that started from humble beginnings.
Castle Coachworks Northampton are a family company, proudly built on our quality reputation and traditional values. Over the years our vehicle repair business has grown from strength to strength. Building from a base as an insurance-approved repairer, Castle have progressed into the Manufacturer approved sector, expanding to a 40-strong workforce.
Where it all started
Castle Coachworks was formed through the combined experience and ambition of three directors, each with a background in the automotive repair industry. Brian Lennon, now Business Development Director, originally ran his own small operation, B&E Autocare, from a garage at the bottom of his sister Rita Lennon’s garden. Rita, who had built her career in the automotive aftersales market and now serves as Finance Director, joined forces with Brian in 1994, investing in the business and helping to drive its growth.
With their combined efforts, the business moved to its first dedicated premises on Brockton Street in Kingsthorpe, where it was rebranded as Castle Coachworks. Around this time, Darren Browne, who had been managing the body shop at the garage they acquired, came on board as the third director. Together, the three brought their skills, experience, and shared vision to establish and grow Castle Coachworks into a unified company.
Continual Investment has helped us Future Proof
Castle Coachworks understand that knowledge is power. We continue to stay at the forefront of the sector by investing in our expertise as well as technology. On-going staff training programmes for our highly experienced and externally qualified auto bodywork technicians, painters and mechanics enable us to maintain a high-calibre environment, within which our structured apprenticeship scheme flourishes to deliver the talent of tomorrow.
Investment at the strategic level in the company can be seen in our newly opened facility at Unit 1. In late 2019, Castle Coachworks’ Directors Brian Lennon (Business Development), Rita Robins (Finance), Darren Browne (Operations) and John Strowbridge (Investment Partner) started the wheels in motion to drive a significant expansion phase. The new 10,000ft2 premises was bought alongside the existing 24,000ft2 workshop.
This new facility now houses the offices, boardroom and is currently being used and during covid was used as a drop off and collection point to help ensure customer and staff safety.
At the latter of of 2022, .Castle Coachworks launched a mechanical sister company CVS to supply the demand for routine maintenance and repairs for our customers’s vehicles.
Quality. Delivered responsibly.
Castle Coachworks are committed to working towards a greener and cleaner future. In our state-of-the-art Junair spray booths, we use the latest High-Tech Spies Hecker paint alongside Glasurit’s environmentally friendly Eco Balance BASF paint.Made from renewable resources, it allows us to achieve the perfect paint finish whilst helping the environment by lowering CO2 emissions.
Where possible, we source our parts locally to reduce our supply miles and carbon footprint and have auditable disposal and recycling processes for all waste materials.
