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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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 (Croydon)
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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Compassionate Funerals
Allistair Anderson. Allistair left his position at City of London Cemetery and Crematorium in February 2016 to create a new kind of funeral business. With 20 years experience working in a wide variety of roles with some of the best local undertakers, cemeteries and crematoria in London, Allistair has the 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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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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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 [...]
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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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Neville Funerals Shefford
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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Colin Fisher Funeral Directors
Now part of the Rowland Brothers Group, Colin Fisher Funeral Directors 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 Colin to devote himself to the families he serves. Colin’s route 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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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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EA Dodd & Son (Ottery St. Mary)
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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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Golders Green)
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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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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Neville Funerals Hemel Hempstead
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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A. H. Cheater Ltd (North Baddesley)
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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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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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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Natural Endings Funeral Services
Rosie Grant. Rosie first became involved in funerals when her dying Mum told Rosie “she wanted and didn’t want certain things. We arranged a fantastic funeral for her. I laid her out, a friend made a coffin, we had her ceremony in a thatched barn followed by a woodland burial. Read more [...]