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 [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Littleover)
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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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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Janet C. Davies of Kelvedon
The Hunnaball Family Funeral Group About: Well known, and highly respected across Essex and Suffolk, the Hunnaball Family Funeral Group came from humble beginnings, when, in 1957, a 15-year-old boy left school and started work in a local undertakers. It was the only thing that the young Trevor Hunnaball had Read more [...]
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Circle Funerals
Profile Sara and Jeremy (Jez) Fixter are the husband-and-wife team behind Circle Funerals in Altrincham. From the moment we met them, it was clear how deeply they value the privilege of caring for families and how thoughtful their approach is. They speak with warmth and sincerity about supporting people through Read more [...]
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Poetic Endings Forest Hill
Louise Winter. Possibly one of the most creative and insightful people involved with funerals anywhere in the world, Louise first attended a funeral as an adult when her grandfather died. Since then, she has absorbed herself with the hitherto unknown world of undertaking, and what she has found led directly 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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A G Down
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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Poppy’s Sheen
Poppy Mardall is the founder of this modern funeral company which has grown from humble beginnings to become a smart, contemporary business with a team of dedicated and passionate staff. We first met Poppy when she was researching the funeral world back in 2011 and it has been fascinating to Read more [...]
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Scotmid Funerals – Uddingston
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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Southall Funeral Service
Funeral Director 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. Read more [...]
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David Button Independent Funeral Directors
Funeral Director(s) David Button is the owner of this small family business and he leads the team who are based here. Joanna West is the funeral home manager and works closely with David and the team of pallbearers. When he first opened the company, David managed on his own with Read more [...]
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Barnes and Hicks Hounslow
Funeral Director/s: Ray Barnes – this is his business, founded in 1999, although Ray’s family have been funeral directors in the area for the last century. Barnes and Hicks have two branches, one in Shepherds Bush and the other in Hounslow. Ray started working in the family business in 1991, Read more [...]
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Hunnaball of Chelmsford
The Hunnaball Family Funeral Group About: Well known, and highly respected across Essex and Suffolk, the Hunnaball Family Funeral Group came from humble beginnings, when, in 1957, a 15-year-old boy left school and started work in a local undertakers. It was the only thing that the young Trevor Hunnaball had Read more [...]
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R. C. Weston & Son
Just to the south of Leicester, there are three, well known funeral homes that have served their communities for decades. R.C. Weston & Son, E. C. Gilbert Ltd. and A. J. Adkinson & Son are all familiar local names, the names of practical, hard-working and compassionate men of the early 20th century, men Read more [...]
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Hunnaball of Sudbury
The Hunnaball Family Funeral Group About: Well known, and highly respected across Essex and Suffolk, the Hunnaball Family Funeral Group came from humble beginnings, when, in 1957, a 15-year-old boy left school and started work in a local undertakers. It was the only thing that the young Trevor Hunnaball had Read more [...]
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Wallace Stuart Independent Lady Funeral Directors
Owner / Funeral Director Wallace Stuart is a fairly young business that was set up by two remarkable, intelligent and capable women, Sarah Moore (née Stuart) and Lesley (Lel) Wallace. Lel always wanted to be a funeral director, but her parents gently nudged her away from her childhood dream. She 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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E. A. Dodd Funeral Directors (Honiton)
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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Ruddington)
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 [...]