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F H Halliday & Son Limited

A brief history of the Halliday Family.

 In the 1800’s the Halliday Family were carpenters, general house maintenance, painters and decorators employing 8 people based at our current address in the High Street. 

One day someone came into the woodworking shop and asked if it was possible for us to make a coffin and it was from that time that they started to become Funeral Directors. If you look back in history of the older family funeral directors in this country you will note that they started out from just being Carpenters. 

Our records show that from 1880 they started carrying out full funeral services providing horse drawn hearses and horse drawn mourning coaches and all the provisions that you would expect from a Funeral Director. 
Our records from 1880 were written in long hand on every funeral which we still have in an archives which are regularly used to look up past funeral arrangements. 

The business was founded by Frederick Halliday and passed to his son William (Bill) and in the late 1950’s his nephew Edward (Eddie) Lawrence came to join him in his business with his wife Kitty Lawrence. Eddie worked in the Carpentry workshop and Kitty ran the office and decorating business. Eddie’s Son Glyn joined the company after leaving school at the age of 17 and also joined Eddie working in the Carpentry workshop and learnt all aspects of the trade from decorating to carpentry to bearing then to become a Funeral Director. 
In 1966 Bill Halliday retired and the Company was formed into a Limited Company and was then owned by the Lawrence family. 

Today the Company is owned by Glyn Lawrence and his wife Helen and is accompanied by their General Manager, Matthew Aldridge and his team. 
Matthew joined the Company in 2005 and has 15 years experience in the Funeral Trade having previously worked for an independent family firm based in Berkshire. 

Our Company is an Independent Family Business and our aim has always been to give the best service and help to families at such a difficult time. 

At Halliday’s we hold traditional values, whilst realising the importance of choice and have a modern view about Funeral Services.