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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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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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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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 [...]
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Divine Ceremony
Who’s who? Dee Ryding is the founder and owner of Divine Ceremony. Inspiring, intelligent and immensely likeable, Dee has been working in and around funerals in Bristol for more than fifteen years, and has been named a Bristol Changemaker for her work in this sector. Like so many progressive funeral 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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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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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Camden 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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Neville Funerals Woburn Sands
Neville Funerals may have been serving the people of Luton and Bedfordshire for over 145 years, 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 construction company. 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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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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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 (Mansfield Woodhouse)
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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Ollerton)
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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Jerrams Brothers Funeral Directors Ltd (Kidlington)
Funeral Director/s: Nicholas Tonks. Managing director, owner and lead funeral director, Nicholas took over the business when the previous owner decided to retire and sell in 1999 (Nicholas was managing the company at that time) and he takes the responsibility for protecting the principles and values of this long-established funeral Read more [...]
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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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Daniel Mercer Family Funeral Directors Ltd.
Daniel Mercer. his wife Nicky, sisters in-law Maria and Noulla or other trusted family members. But it will usually be Daniel, unless he’s out on a funeral. This is very much his ‘baby’, he opened the doors of his company at Baring Road in November 2017, after learning his trade 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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Southgate & Roberts Independent Funeral Directors
Funeral Directors Liam Roberts (Dip FD, Dip CFSMA & MBIFD) and Matthew Southgate, both hugely experienced and thoroughly nice people, pooled all the knowledge they had acquired over decades learning their trade, opening the high-quality Southgate & Roberts premises in central Ipswich in February 2015. Liam came into funerals in 1985 and immediately Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Derby)
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 [...]