Lifting The Lid

Ladies Prepare Ladies Not something that may spring to mind when you are first thinking of organizing a funeral but it’s worth considering who is going to be moving and preparing your loved-one.   So when it comes to preparing ladies, the washing and dressing process...

Funeral Director Near Me How do you choose a Funeral Director? There are many ways people try to find a funeral director. The above is just one search term of many put into Google. Others could be Funeral Home Scarborough, Funeral Parlour Scarborough, and Traditional...

Green Funerals: Less is More What really is a green funeral? How do you assess it to know if it is truly ‘Green’ or not? Green Burials are a great choice but there a limited number of sites. There is Mowthorpe Garden of Rest at Terrington and also Westerdale Green...

Karen and Covid  Karen didn’t get Covid and it didn’t really affect the last part of her life but it totally changed the Funeral she had carefully planned. My wife Gemma worked with Karen for a few years in Scarborough and they had a great working relationship....

Is a Traditional funeral really just a Victorian funeral?   The Victorians really did death in a big way. Enter the words “Victorians and…” into a search engine and Google will fill in the blank with “Death”.  Such was the Victorians link to all things death it’s...