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 Natural Undertaking
Carrie Weekes (left) and Fran Glover. Possibly the most un-funereal undertakers that you could find, these two women have quietly set about bringing funerals into the 21st century since they created A Natural Undertaking in 2014. Now in its tenth year, the Birmingham company has gathered awards and accolades along the 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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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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Poetic Endings
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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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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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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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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A. J. Adkinson & Son
Just to the south of Leicester, there are three, well known funeral homes that have served their communities for decades. A. J. Adkinson & Son, A J Adkinson, Wigston and E. C. Gilbert Ltd. are all familiar local names, the names of practical, hard-working and compassionate men of the early Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Sutton in Ashfield)
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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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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Rosedale Funeral Home Attleborough
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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G. Seller (Hinkley)
Funeral Director/s: Joseph Barsby is the managing director, and very much at the helm of this jewel of a family business in the heart of Hinckley. Joseph has had overall control of the business since 2014, taking over from his father David, the driving force behind the business for the Read more [...]
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Tom Owen and Son Limited
Funeral Director/s Tristan Owen – great grandson of the original Tom Owen – and his wife, Kelly. There are three other members of the team, Chris Lea, who is a long-standing member of the team, Victoria Baines who joined in November 2021 and is responsible for all work within the 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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Holmes & Family Ltd. (Farnborough)
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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Attwood Funerals
Funeral Director/s: Attwood Funerals is truly family owned and run – Michael Spohrer owns and runs the business with his mother Kate. Together they comprise the entire staff of the business, making it certain that you will be dealing with people who are dedicated to you and your family. Mike’s Read more [...]
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Arthur C Towner Ltd (St. Leonards-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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Peace Funerals
If you choose Peace Funerals to help you with a funeral, you will be in the capable hands of John Mallatratt and his close knit team of funeral directors, Stephen Parkin, Gavin Moorby, Liz Greaves, Charlie Marshall, Claire Havenhand and Luke Fair. You will also be choosing one of the Read more [...]
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Caledonia Cremation
About Scotland’s first not-for-profit funeral service was launched in February 2018 offering an affordable direct cremation service throughout mainland Scotland. They additional support for bereaved people experiencing hardship; Not only do they accept clients who will be in receipt of Funeral Support Payment without a deposit, but they actively welcome Read more [...]