A selection of quite the nicest, most personable and knowledgeable people make up the staff of this highly respected funeral director company, and you will be looked after throughout your dealings with them by the staff at the branch you make contact with. Independently owned and run, Rowland Brothers has Read more [...]
Armstrongs Funeral Service
Nick Armstrong. Once upon a time an electrician in Newcastle. When work started to dry up, he started to look for something else. “I knew that it had to be a job dealing with people, not stuck in a factory.” At the back of Nick’s mind was the death of Read more [...]
AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service
A.W. Lymn is a large family firm founded in 1907. This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Family businesses can run out of steam and get very complacent. Big businesses can be faceless and impersonal. This is not what you want from a funeral director. But Lymn’s has admirably and triumphantly Read more [...]
Southall Funeral Service
Michael Tiney. Well known and popular in the area, Michael is a second-generation funeral director, having joined his parents in the family business in 1996, fourteen years after John and Jennifer opened the doors of the premises in Western Road, in a part of London they knew well. John and Read more [...]
David Button Independent Funeral Directors
Funeral Director(s) David is the owner of this small family business, while Joanna joined the team in February 2019. A former bank manager in Felixstowe for a number of years Joanna took a career break to spend more time with her children. On returning to work she was a business Read more [...]
W.E. Pinder & Son Ltd
John Pinder is the owner and the principal funeral director here. How did he get to be a funeral director? By following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, grandfather and father. This is a good old family business firmly rooted in its community. For John it was the example of Read more [...]
AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service
A.W. Lymn is a large family firm founded in 1907. This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Family businesses can run out of steam and get very complacent. Big businesses can be faceless and impersonal. This is not what you want from a funeral director. But Lymn’s has admirably and triumphantly Read more [...]
Farthing Funeral Service
Luke Farthing. Other Farthing people who also conduct funerals are Andrea Race, Chris Griggs and Sharon McDonald. Farthing Funeral Service is a rare thing; a long established business that has retained the best of the past – the acquired experience and knowledge of over a century and three quarters of Read more [...]
Holmes & Family Ltd.
Oliver and Toby Holmes. Sons of David Holmes (who founded the company and who attends 99% of funerals as a driver / bearer), Ollie and Toby are quite extraordinarily lovely young men. We met Toby only briefly, as he was busy with the business of the day, but spent quite Read more [...]
Howard Goodman Funeral Home
Howard Goodman is a relatively new business – it was opened in 2014 by Tracey and Martin Challenor with Gavin Burnett and Shirley Morton. All of them are well trained and have years of experience behind them. They all worked for a big, corporate funeral director’s where they felt they Read more [...]
