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We are required to meet the highest standards of funeral provision in the UK and each year provide information to verify that we are the owners of the business. There is a common saying among the family-owned funeral community, ‘we look after families as if they were our own’.
Aug 11, 2005 · It is one of the two biggest and oldest funeral homes in the area, said Norman Sosebee, who owns Sosebee Funeral Home and attended high school with Ernest Huey.</p><p>"Mike's problems just amazed everybody," Sosebee said.
Jan 4, 2023 · Dignity Funerals is set for private ownership. A consortium led by Sir Peter Wood, the founder of Direct Line, and City fund management bigwig Gary Channon appears set to take the...
- St. Canna of Brittany
- 19th Century Developments
- Victoria Park and Billy The Seal
- Parks and Arts
- Cowbridge Road
The name Canton may be derived from the nearby Canna brook in Pontcanna (named after St. Canna), and the word 'Ton', which can either mean Farm or Meadow. The name could also possibly have meant 'St. Canna's estate'. Most historical sources indicate that Canton probably started life as a hamlet (a group of houses smaller than a village) before the ...
The area was sparsely populated but the Bishop of Llandaff, who owned the land, also owned a mill and a manor house. In 1859, the Cattle Market and Slaughterhouse opened, and by the late 19th Century, there were stables, a meat market, and Fairs were being held monthly. A major employer in the area was William Vaughan, a local councillor and preach...
Victoria Park, known for its beautiful fountain and attractive flowerbeds, was opened in 1897 on the former Ely Common. It had the first public bowling green in Cardiff, and was home to Billy the seal - an unusual neighbour but a famous Cardiffian nevertheless! It is thought that she had been accidentally caught by a foreign trawler in 1912. When t...
The original Canton High School was opened in 1907 on Market Road, but was nearly completely destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the German bombing raids in the second World War. The school was repaired, but it soon moved to new premises at Fairwater in 1963. The building in Market Road is now the home of the 'Chapter Arts Centre'. In 1891, land-owne...
Many family businesses started in Cowbridge Road, with some trading for nearly one hundred years. Franklin's Bakery at the corner of Gray Street and Pope's photography services, on the corner of Albert Street were some of the oldest shops that have unfortunately closed down in recent years. Woolworths, a victim of the credit crunch, closed in 2009 ...
For Joe, our current owner, the funeral home has been a long-standing part of his family. Ralph Giordano (Joe’s great-grandfather) first started his family’s funeral home in Harlem, NY in 1923, when asked to by his neighbors.
Jan 23, 2023 · Dignity, the UK's largest listed funeral provider, has agreed to be taken over in a deal valuing it at £281m. The company is being bought by a consortium of investment firms led by Sir Peter Wood, the founder of the insurers Direct Line and esure, and Gary Channon, Dignity's former chief executive.
Brian T. Fitzgerald has been the owner and operator of the Dockray and Thomas Funeral Home since 1991. Mr. Fitzgerald, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Alexander F. Thomas, Sr. and uncle, Timothy A. E. Thomas, represents the third generation of the Thomas family to serve the Canton Community.
