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 – Portobello
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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Family Tree Funeral Company
Jane Diamond (on right in photo) Quite possibly, Jane will find the prominence of her name in this review uncomfortable. She has an instinctive preference to be in the background rather than the foreground, seeing her role as supportive and professional rather than the centre of attention. But it’s Jane Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Spondon)
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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EA Dodd & Son (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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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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Scotmid Funerals – Penicuik
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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Neville Funerals Hitchin
Neville Funerals may have been serving the people of Luton and Bedfordshire for 150 years this year (2025), but they are not standing still, nor taking anything for granted. Still family run, Neville Trust, led by the fifth generation, has overall control of the both the funeral business and their 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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Clifton)
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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Gallagher Family Funeral Directors
Funeral Director/s: This is a lovely, modern, family funeral business, created by David Gallagher and his wife Adele when they were both just 24 years old, in 1993. Today, three decades on, they have been joined in the business by one of their sons, Sam, and alongside the three family Read more [...]
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Sullivan and Son Independent Funeral Service
The business is owned by Paul Sullivan, Dip FD,who started in the funeral industry in 1992 when he was aged 19. He mostly runs the business himself with the support of Alan Goodall and his wife Beryl, and a loyal team of casual staff. (Paul’s brother Alex has also been Read more [...]
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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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Neville Funerals Stopsley
Neville Funerals may have been serving the people of Luton and Bedfordshire for 150 years this year (2025), but they are not standing still, nor taking anything for granted. Still family run, Neville Trust, led by the fifth generation, has overall control of the both the funeral business and their 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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Rosedale Funeral Home Harleston
The Rosedale Funeral Homes – there are seven locally – are all owned by Anne Beckett-Allen and her husband Simon, making this a family business in the truest of senses. Anne and Simon are immersed in the day to day running of Rosedale and their touch is evident in every Read more [...]
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A. R. Adams Ltd.
A.R. Adams has been going since 1900 and now has the fifth generation of the family involved with Ethen Adams recently joining as an apprentice. It’s steeped in the history of your area. People researching their family tree pop in wanting to know where an ancestor is buried. Chances are Read more [...]
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Rosedale Funeral Home Beccles
The Rosedale Funeral Homes – there are seven locally – are all owned by Anne Beckett-Allen and her husband Simon, making this a family business in the truest of senses. Anne and Simon are immersed in the day to day running of Rosedale and their touch is evident in every 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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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.