Clear Options, Trusted Advice, and Complete Care
We combine years of professional experience with gentle direction to help you build a personalised service.
With a legacy of service stretching back over 175 years, HL Hawes & Son remains dedicated to supporting local families with utmost dignity and professionalism. Whether your focus is future planning, immediate funeral arrangements, or general information gathering, our experienced team stands ready to assist you.
Direct Cremations
Also referred to as an unattended cremation, this option provides a straightforward farewell without a formal service or attendees. Our dedicated team handles every detail with complete dignity, transparency, and care, giving you peace of mind throughout the process.
Probate
We work with trusted probate specialists who provide expert legal and administrative assistance to executors and administrators. They ensure the meticulous and respectful management of your loved one's estate.
Coffins & Caskets
Choosing a coffin or casket is a highly personal element of funeral planning. We provide a curated selection, ranging from traditional hardwood finishes to contemporary, environmentally conscious designs, to ensure a respectful and fitting tribute.
Vehicles
Our signature fleet features elegant black Jaguar hearses and matching limousines, alongside a wide variety of bespoke alternatives. From classic vintage cars to iconic Routemaster buses, we can help you arrange a unique procession that truly reflects your loved one's journey.
Horse-Drawn Carriages
A horse-drawn carriage creates a deeply moving and memorable procession, offering a beautiful celebration of a life well-lived. This classic choice brings a sense of peace and quiet elegance to your loved one’s final journey.
Service Sheets
A beautifully crafted service sheet guides your guests through the ceremony and provides family and friends with a treasured memento . Our team is here to help you design, personalise, and print these meaningful keepsakes.
Extended Services
To ensure every ceremony is uniquely tailored, we offer a comprehensive range of additional services that can be integrated into your chosen funeral arrangements. These options provide further opportunities for individual personalisation.
Keepsakes & Urns
Explore our personalised memorial jewellery and keepsake range, designed to provide comfort and create a lasting, tangible connection to your loved one.
Memorials
Explore a selection of traditional headstones, plaques, benches, and garden memorials, each crafted with dedicated care and guided completely by your choices.
Repatriation
If your loved one passes away abroad or away from home, our knowledgeable team can oversee the entire repatriation journey.
Bereavement Support
Our commitment to your family extends far beyond the day of the service. We remain here to provide gentle guidance, grief resources, and memorial planning, offering continuous comfort and stability through the weeks and months ahead.
Words from the
Families We’ve Helped
I highly recommend H L Hawes & Son
They were so kind and caring and supportive to my family, though this difficult time. I would personally like to thank all the staff but give a special thanks to Richard for everything he did for us . We wanted Dad to have a lovely send off and that's what he got
The team is lovely
Special thanks to Brett who guided the family during a difficult time and was on hand to deal with all requests & queries. He made the process seamless. We had a traditional Hindu funeral and they accommodated all our needs. Thank you
We would like to take the time to Thank You
Thank You all for the very professional and amazing way looked after the final stages for my cousin’s funeral and memorial service.
Your attention was wonderful. From the funeral home to the celebrant and the printer of the Order of Service . Nothing was left out .
Sensitive and professional, also with other traditions/religions (e.g. Sikhism)
We cannot thank Richard, Marc and the team enough. Came highly recommended, would highly recommend.
H L Hawes recently conducted the funeral of my late father.
They were so helpful throughout the whole process, and provided such a professional service before and on the day. I especially want to thank Lorraine, for all her patience, understanding, and support. You were amazing. Thank you all for ensuring my father had such a good send off.
We used H L Hawes to handle my Mum's funeral. The friendly team led by Brett gave us a such a perfect day.
They were so efficient and sympathetic throughout the weeks leading up to the event and that made it so much easier for us. They thought of everything – and it all went off so smoothly without a hitch. It was all just as Mum would have wanted, full of dignity and respect. I have no hesitation in recommending them for outstanding service .
We used H L Hawes & Son for my little sister funeral. They was so professional, polite, understanding and respectful.
Their communication and organisation was so amazing. I cannot thank Brett and team enough and forever grateful for giving my sister an amazing send off.
Thank you to Brett and Richard for helping the family to organise our Mum's funeral.
Obviously this is a very emotional time and they were both on hand, with nothing too much trouble, enabling us to rightly celebrate our Mum's life with dignity but not at all stuffy. Mum would have been proud.