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Here at Tester & Jones Funeral Services, we utilise the services of several ministers and celebrants. Here we find out more about Carl Brown, who says:   “I am an independent funeral celebrant and I often describe my journey to becoming a celebrant as a ‘calling’.   I started my career as a civil servant and also spent many years serving as a deacon and church elder. I retired from the civil service at 55 and retrained as a plumber - a complete change but it improved my work-

Five of our team were in Mayfield last night to enjoy the Mayfield Festival Choir Autumn Concert in the beautiful setting of St Dunstan's Church. The concert was Antonin Dvorak's 'Stabat Mater', written as a time of the composer's life in his mid-30s, when his first three children had died within a space of two years. And, yet, the music manages to capture emotions ranging from fear, awe, fervour and patriotism to love, joy and triumph. The conductor was Jeremy Summerly and t

At Tester & Jones Funeral Services, we have been a proud member of SAIF Independent Funeral Directors since we were established more than 20 years ago.  Recently another member of SAIF – Spire Funeral Services based in Chesterfield – shared a post on social media that went viral. It simply asked that drivers give their funeral corteges respect, when out on the road.   The post stated: Just lately we are having more and more drivers on the roads being impatient and trying to p

We are happy to be supporting the beautiful Christmas Tree Festival at St Michael and All Angels Jarvis Brook once again and are looking forward to decorating our tree. This year, the Festival is being held over the weekend of Friday 12 to Sunday 14 December. Here are some memories from last year's festival.