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 [...]
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Scotmid Funerals – Leith, Duke Street
The Scotmid website proudly states ‘We are a co-operative so we focus on the needs of the people we serve, not the demands of shareholders. We are proud to be at the heart of the communities we serve and are committed to being open, honest, ethical and professional at all Read more [...]
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A & J Morriss & Sons
Part of the Rowland Brothers Group, A & J Morriss is an independent, family run business with all the attributes that brings. Funerals are supported by the Rowland Brothers fleet and staff, and back office administrative support frees the Morriss staff members to devote themselves to the families they serve. Read more [...]
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J Brown Funeral Services (Wendover)
Winners of the 2021 Buckinghamshire Business Awards for Excellence in Customer Service, J Brown Funeral services is owned and run by Jason Brown – the man himself, together with his wife Ana. This is a true family owned and run business, created in 2017, some 25 years after Jason first Read more [...]
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Holmes & Family Ltd. (Fleet)
Who’s who Oliver Holmes Dip F A.A., Dip F.D. One of the sons of David Holmes (who founded the company and who attends 99% of funerals as a driver / bearer), Ollie is a former professional rugby player who has settled into the role of being in charge of the Read more [...]
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AJB Funerals (Chippenham)
Previously known as Bewley and Merrett, the company changed names in 2018 to reflect the people who actually own and run the company, and in 2020 rebranded to become AJB Funerals. Aaron Bewley is the third generation funeral director who runs this company, having worked alongside his late father Jonathon Read more [...]
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Overmass and Chapple
This funeral company has been recommended by the GFG for a number of years now – we are updating the review and it will appear here soon.
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Full Circle Funerals Ilkley
Sarah Jones and David Billington are the business partners who founded Full Circle Funerals. Although, as their website says, Sarah and Dave are personal, professional and compassionate people first and funeral directors second. Full Circle Funerals is quite unlike any other funeral director business in the area. This is immediately Read more [...]
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Scotmid Funerals – Boswall
The Scotmid website proudly states ‘We are a co-operative so we focus on the needs of the people we serve, not the demands of shareholders. We are proud to be at the heart of the communities we serve and are committed to being open, honest, ethical and professional at all Read more [...]
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Lilies Funeral Directors (Birmingham)
Funeral Director/s: Lee Solomon and Nathan Scully. Lifelong friends who went to the same playgroup and grew up together in the local area. Their mums were best friends, and Lee and Nathan have continued and expanded their second-generation friendship into the business partnership that led to the creation of Lilies. Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Hampstead)
The Leverton family has been arranging funerals for people in this part of London since 1789. Yes, they’re now into their eighth generation; they’re steeped in heritage, drenched in history. This makes them an attractive-seeming proposition. After all, a good old family business is exactly what most of us hope Read more [...]
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Sussex Funeral Services Ltd
Funeral Director Sussex Funeral Services is owned and managed by Philip and Sallie Evans, with support from Ben Scott who looks after much of the office and practical work. It’s Phil who conducts the funerals here, so if you appoint Sussex Funeral Services, you will quite possibly meet all three Read more [...]
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Rowland Brothers (New Addington)
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 [...]
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Woodland Wishes
Owner / Funeral Director Tracy O’Leary is the funeral director and owner of this business. And she’s a ‘Green Funeral Director’, not just a ‘Funeral Director’. The whole story of Woodland Wishes is an organic one; Tracy didn’t have a grand plan or ambition to take on the world of Read more [...]
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Hillier Funeral Services
For a good, well run business there can be real advantages in being around for a long time. Talking to Mark Hillier and his staff, we were conscious of the comfort and confidence that grows out of long experience and of the long established high standards that run through all Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Arnold)
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 [...]
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W.E. Pinder & Son Ltd
Owner / Funeral director 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 Read more [...]
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Special Send-Offs
Funeral Director Mark Hancock, BSc (Hons). Special Send-offs is his creation, and is dedicated to his late mother in law, Muriel Humphrey (Mu). When Mu died in 2015, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, Mark realised that his wife’s family were moving towards the standard sort of funeral that Read more [...]
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Co-op Funeral Directors – a part of Chelmsford Star Co-operative
Co-op Funeral Directors is owned by your local co-operative society, Chelmsford Star, which was founded in in 1867. They’ve been doing funerals since 1936. Chelmsford Star Co-op is affiliated to the wider co-operative movement but remains proudly independent and self-governing. It is not a part of The Co-operative Group nor Read more [...]
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Arthur C Towner Ltd (Battle)
Funeral Director(s) Oliver Towner, BA(Hons). Sixth generation of the Towner family. The business was started by his great-great-great grandfather, in 1875. Masses of heritage here, but absolutely none of the nothing-to-learn attitude which besets many such family affairs. Those vocational impulses Oliver experienced when he was a teenager all guided him Read more [...]