Guest badgerboo Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Hi, can anyone tell me anything about Tomlinsons Funeral Parlour on Bedford Street, such as when it closed, why it closed. Are the stories true about there being a tunnel to it from the infirmary? Anything anyone can remember or tell me would be great. Pictures would be even better. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Hi, can anyone tell me anything about Tomlinsons Funeral Parlour on Bedford Street, such as when it closed, why it closed. Are the stories true about there being a tunnel to it from the infirmary? Anything anyone can remember or tell me would be great. Pictures would be even better. Thanks Joseph Tomlinson (& Sons), Borough Mews, Bedford Street. in 1919 they were also at Oxford Mews, 162 Moore Street & 116 Holme Lane. and in 1925 at Oxford Mews, 287 Hanover Street. Don't know when they closed though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Every time I pass Tomlinson's Funeral Parlour I think of the times when I used to go that way to school on Cross Bedford Street, the main entrance being on Bedford Street. There were some arched shaped glassless windows at near pavement level which were covered with wire netting that my friends used to poke lolly pop sticks through. I still remember the sickly smell and the cold that used to seep through. It wasn't until I was older and my mother was laid to rest there that I realized this was the mortuary. Today those same openings have glass in and are now someones basement windows oooooh spooky, I wouldn't like to live there although they've built a new adjoining block attached to it with windows of the same design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddy Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Don't know if this link will work, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&...,354.63,,0,4.04 Looks like it did, the flat roofed building was the chapel of rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 One of our neighbours used to work at Tomlinsons as a driver of the hearse, we always used to comment on the beautiful flowers he always had in his window. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 I used to see this building a lot. My mom worked next door at Shefftax Taxi's, for 25 years. I never really appreciated what the building was until i got much older. They had a phone in thier office that would ring 'after hours' for Tomlinsons. I never heard it ring, but apparently, according to my mum, it used to ring quite frequent late at night. I also saw it be renovated into flats. The whole project hit a grinding halt when they run out of funding, and it stood, half done for a good long while. All the block where Shefftax was is now new flats, surprise surprise!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Hi, can anyone tell me anything about Tomlinsons Funeral Parlour on Bedford Street, such as when it closed, why it closed. Are the stories true about there being a tunnel to it from the infirmary? Anything anyone can remember or tell me would be great. Pictures would be even better. Thanks Will this do ? Thanks to the Sunday Journal. April 11TH 1982. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Will this do ? Thanks to the Sunday Journal. April 11TH 1982. Nice work W/E; Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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