About Me:
My name is Stephen Brown, I have in lived In Blyth all my life, I was born and brought up in the Isabella Colliery in Middle Row until they were demolished for new houses, my family moved into another miner’s house on Cowpen Road (Baker Terrace) I attended schools in Blyth starting at P.L.R. moving onto the threepenny bit school on Newsham road then onto Tynedale Middle school and onto Tynedale High school.
When I met my wife Nicola Jefferson we set up our home in Blyth. I started to work as a taxi driver in Blyth when I was 21 and loved meeting people and helping them, I started to drive buses around the area, but I didn’t get the contact with people that I liked to, so I decided it was time for a career change. I started helping with under bearing and driving duties for a funeral director, I was where I wanted to be meeting people and providing a service to the community, Peter Melrose gave me the opportunity of full-time employment and trained me to his very high standard.
I love helping and supporting people when they lose a loved one at this hard time. The satisfaction I get when at the end a family says “thankyou we don’t know how we would have coped without you” is fantastic. I am currently studying for my diploma in Funeral Directing, when I complete this it will make me one of the few qualified independent funeral directors in Blyth.
We intend to provide a service when a family needs it most, when your family needs us, my family will be there for you.
Turn to Stephen Brown Independent Funeral Director for compassionate and personal support during your time of need.
What we do:
There are often many arrangements and decisions to be made following the loss of a loved one sadly at a time when you are struggling with the grieving process.
My job is to take you gently through that process, looking after you, advising you and helping you every step of the way.
I am fully committed to making sure you honour your loved one in a respectful, dignified and personal way, no matter what your financial situation.
I offer a range of funeral services throughout Blyth, including direct cremations, low cost funerals, eco-friendly coffins, woodland burials, horse drawn funerals with black or white horses, funeral flowers.
I am available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can speak with you at your own home.
Telephone calls to office are always answered and dealt with personally by a member of my family, whatever time
of day.
My Professional Services:
I provide all the professional services you need to ensure you pay a fitting tribute to your loved one.
This means I am on hand day or night to answer your worries, take care of arrangements, contact relevant people, organise paperwork and more. My services are personal and sensitive and I can go through the preparations with you in the comfort of your own home.
The professional services I provide include:
Personal attention and support for all your arrangements and concerns
Completion of all necessary paperwork
Making arrangements with clergy, cemetery/crematorium and other agencies
Help and advice regarding registration of the death
Viewing in chapel of rest at any time by arrangement
Receipt, listing and distribution of charitable donations
Placing obituary notices in the press
Ordering floral tributes
Collection and retention of cremated remains
Advice regarding placing of ashes after cremation
Arranging orders of service
- Independent Funeral Director - Open 24 hours - 7 days a week
- When your family needs us, my family will be there for you.
- Local, friendly service
- We do not charge you to come and see your loved one in our chapels
- We do not charge to remove your loved one and bring them into our care
- Proud to be different - professional & caring
