Most High Street banks are phasing them out, with some closing the service to new customers and others clearing out their vaults altogether. It's now common for solicitors to store papers, such as wills, trusts or house deeds.
To consumers, safe deposit boxes are a throwback to the days when documents couldn't be registered electronically and people invested their savings in physical assets rather than property or intangible stocks.
Nowadays, many people's only encounters with boxes are with the kind you'll find in hotel rooms with a numeric lock.
But still there's something evocative about the traditional, bank-based variety - of a time when mementoes weren't all stored in a cloud or, more fancifully, of a James Bond world of microfilm, false documents and dead-letter drops
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Popular culture remains captivated by them. Think of Harry Potter entering the vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Or Jason Bourne finding fake documents, piles of currency and a pistol as he discovers his former identity. Central to the plot of the recent film A Most Wanted Man, based on a John Le Carre novel, was a safe deposit box stuffed with euros
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Some of the movies in which safe deposit boxes play a pivotal role:
Casino (1995) - Ace (Robert De Niro) stuffs a safe deposit box with cash and gives the key to Ginger (Sharon Stone)
Sexy Beast (2000) - Gal (Ray Winstone) is forced to leave the comfort of his Spanish villa to raid security deposit boxes in a bank vault