We are Blackburn's Oldest independent Funeral Directors

Even though another funeral service implies it is.

Very few businesses in the Blackburn area – in any line of work – can boast 130 years continuous service – especially operating from the same location for the whole of this period.

Thomas Talbot, supported by his wife, and later sons, ran the well known business along Whalley New Road after founding it in 1876.  The business is long established, but this does not mean that it has stood still over the years.  In the early days the traditional form of funeral transport was a team of magnificent plumed Belgian horses, drawing highly polished wooden hearses complete with ornate candle lamps.

It was in the early 1950’s that the business really began to flourish, under the stewardship of qualified Funeral Director and Embalmer John Bentley as managing director working with his wife Edith.