Beautiful Stroud funeral venue
The Quaker ‘Friends’ Meeting House’ on Chestnut Hill in Nailsworth near Stroud most graciously allowed a family to hold their funeral there last week. There are not many places for a Stroud funeral as peaceful, as beautiful, nor as sweetly hosted as...How to say Farewell well
There are many ways – here is one, at the beautiful Matara Centre, Kingscote Park, near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. The coffin was brought into a side room, where friends and family could sit with their beloved father/friend/colleague, and write a message on a...BBC Radio 4 for Stroud Funerals!
James Showers was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live on his 68th birthday Dec 6 – as a Stroud Funeral Director who has had an interesting career.
The right flowers for a funeral.
Should I send flowers to a funeral? Any friend or member of the family can donate flowers as part of their personal farewell. Flowers can be sent to the funeral home in Stroud, or brought to the funeral service, and will usually be placed at the front of the chapel....
How much to spend on funeral flowers?
Deciding how much to spend on flowers for a funeral can be difficult but with a little understanding and planning, funeral flowers can be cheaper than you might expect. It is traditional for flowers to form some part of the funeral: to go on top of the coffin, given...
The source of the ‘death taboo’
How did Britain change so drastically from a nation obsessed with death and funeral etiquette to one – until recently – so averse to any mention of the topic? Firstly, Queen Victoria died, in 1901. Then came the War; thousands of young men swept in great...
Victorian Values
It has been said that a culture is either obsessed with sex or with death. For the Victorians, it was death. Death in Victorian British culture was ever-present; elaborate death rituals sustained the living, and set the tone for a whole way of life....Village funerals in the old days
Green Burial at Brimscombe, Stroud
A fine lady from Stroud wanted nobody atall bar the funeral staff at her funeral, a green burial at Brimscombe, Stroud.What to do when someone dies
We will tell you exactly what to do, and help and guide you through each of the different stages.