Alty & Sons Funeral Service (also known as The Alty Funeral Service) is an independent, family owned funeral directors that has been established for five generations. Here at Wm. Alty & Sons, we continuously strive to ensure you and your family are well looked after throughout. Our history and experience in family matters means we can only provide the very best for our customers.
As you would expect from a service with over 100 years of experience, we have a range of in-house and partnered services that include absolutely everything you'll need when arranging and managing a funeral. At Wm. Alty & Sons Funeral Service, we pride ourselves in offering the very best facilities to complement the high standard of our funeral homes and staff.
As you would expect from a service with over 100 years of experience, we have a range of in-house and partnered services that include absolutely everything you'll need when arranging and managing a funeral. At Wm. Alty & Sons Funeral Service, we pride ourselves in offering the very best facilities to complement the high standard of our funeral homes and staff.
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Based in Blackburn, Broomfield House was built in 1874 and purchased by William Gregson Alty in 1911. Wm. Alty & Sons Funeral Services was then founded in 1915. Not far from our Higher Walton funeral home, William Gregson Alty began his working life on Gregson Farm in Brindle.
Soon after he would take local residents of Blackburn for a weekend away at the countryside, using his horse drawn carriage for several purposes whilst he was a coal merchant.After humble beginnings, William Alty offered penny funerals for the poorer residents of the local Witton area with his horse drawn vehicle.
Soon after he would take local residents of Blackburn for a weekend away at the countryside, using his horse drawn carriage for several purposes whilst he was a coal merchant.After humble beginnings, William Alty offered penny funerals for the poorer residents of the local Witton area with his horse drawn vehicle.
The Medical Certificate of Cause of Death from the surgery, hospital or coroner is emailed directly through to the registrars office. The registrar will then contact the next of kin by telephone and go through the registration process. Following this, they will post any copies of the death certificate to the next of kin, which will be 11 each.
Regardless of when the funeral may be needed, we guarantee to provide our service at today's prices. If you move away, you can transfer your funeral plan through a network of professional firms across the UK. Your payment can be tailored to what suits you, with a once-only payment or by instalments.
To arrange the funeral, we can come to your home address. Otherwise, you can visit one of our offices at Broomfield House (Blackburn) or Bridge House (Preston). The registration procedure, and the documents you will needed for this, will be explained to you thoroughly. We will bring the person who has passed away into our care within a 30 mile radius, 24 hours, 7 days a week.*.
These are just some of the coffins we offer at The Alty Funeral Service. As we have our own on-site coffin workshop, all coffins can be customised to fit your own individual preferences, whether that's something simple or more bespoke. Some of the coffins shown are included in our Pre-Paid Funeral Plans.
Reviews (8)
Ella Nicholas
Nov 17, 2021
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Steve Geldard
Apr 04, 2021
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Very poor service provided for my father in law’s funeral. The announcement of the funeral was not placed in the newspaper, they denied receiving an MP3 recording of a poem to be read at the service, messed up the running order of recordings to be played and were generally very poor in their communication with the family. The funeral was prearranged via an Age UK Dignity funeral plan. Age UK upheld a number of complaints we made about the poor service Altys provided. When collecting the ashes, I told an Altys staff member how disappointed we had been.
My wife received an email from Russell asking
My wife received an email from Russell asking
Jonathan Coughlin
Dec 18, 2020
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Billy Goldeen
Dec 01, 2017
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I would like to thank the team at Alty' s funeral services for their professional and empathetic support when providing a service for my husband and or family .Their attention to detail dignified genuine manner and overall support was second to none .Thank you Alty' s you assisted in making an awful time more bearable .
Clairestanden
Jul 06, 2017
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Family Roberts
Jun 26, 2017
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From informing them of my mother's death, dealing with all the preparations for the funeral and especially on the day itself, we felt fully supported by Russell and his team. Everyone we dealt with was kindness itself and we can't thank them enough for their role in making a day of profound sadness one of such memorable beauty.
Singinggem
Dec 11, 2016
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Peter Oldcorn
Dec 20, 2014
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Our mother died earlier this year and we arranged the funeral through Alty and Sons in Blackburn. Whatever services they perform away from the actual day of the funeral, they certainly failed on the day itself. One of their funeral cars broke down and we were faced with the prospect of the staff using jump leads to the hearse. Consider how would that have looked?
Later at the crematorium, despite have been given clear instructions, Altys managed to play a piece of music from the Disney film Frozen, about as far as possible from what we had planned for our mother, a music teacher.
Of course the
Later at the crematorium, despite have been given clear instructions, Altys managed to play a piece of music from the Disney film Frozen, about as far as possible from what we had planned for our mother, a music teacher.
Of course the
