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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O’Dwyer Funeral Directors (Kilburn Lane)
O’Dwyer Funeral Directors is a first generation business and proud of it. It belongs to Don O’Dwyer, and it is Don and his small team of colleagues, Anthea, Alan, Stuart and Claudette who will look after you and your family and who will care for the person who has died. Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Kentish Town)
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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A & A Doyle Ltd
Allan and Awdri Doyle, a husband and wife team. Their business opened its doors in January 2012. The couple are extremely personable: warm, friendly, approachable, passionate about their work. Allan was born and brought up in the town and it is particularly important for him to not let his birthplace Read more [...]
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Barringtons Independent Funeral Services (Formby)
David Barrington. David\’s story is best told in his own words: “I was brought up around the funeral business, our family home was where the cars were parked so when growing up I spent most of my time playing in limousines and hearses and for a young boy these cars Read more [...]
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R H Faulkner & Daughter Ltd
Funeral Director/s Paula Clinch – this is her company, she is the ‘daughter’ in the ‘R H Faulkner & Daughter’ name above the door, which is a tribute to her parents, Rosemary and Harry Faulkner. And despite the traditional style name, this is a young company, not an old established 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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Radcliffe on Trent)
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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Simplicita cremations – direct cremation company
Simplicity Cremations was founded by the pioneer of direct cremation in the UK, Nick Gandon. Nick is a funerals man through and through; he’s been working in this business, on and off, all his life, and when he came to contemplate retirement and a better work / life balance, he Read more [...]
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Margaret Rose & Bespoke Funerals (Corby)
Margaret Rose Funerals is the family run business created by the late Maggie Brinklow and her husband Tony Killen. Maggie was a trained funeral celebrant, and it was while working as a celebrant and as an arranger for another firm of funeral directors that she decided to go the whole Read more [...]
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Rowland Brothers (Warlingham)
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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Mansfield)
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. H. Cheater Ltd. (Romsey)
Michael Peace is at the heart of this family business, ably helped by a small and loyal team of staff. Michael’s father Simon is still involved, coming in to carry out funerals when families ask for him specifically, although increasingly Simon is enjoying retirement and caring for his animals, The Read more [...]
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The Individual Funeral Company
Owner / Funeral Director Lucy Coulbert is the one woman powerhouse behind The Individual Funeral Company (TIFC) who is on a mission to improve funeral provision in the UK. Winner of the ‘Low Cost Funeral Provider of the Year’ in the 2016 Good Funeral Awards with her second funeral company, 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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Arthur C Towner Ltd (Bexhill-on-Sea)
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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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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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 (Ilkeston)
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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Hadaway & Denton Independent Funeral Directors
Funeral Director/s: Carl Hadaway. Carl is well known in the local area, as he was formerly funeral director and manager of Earl & Co. Funeral Directors before the business changed hands and became part of a corporate chain. Carl left when the company was sold and went to work for Read more [...]
