News Archive
Tony Rowland Awarded MBE For Services To The Community
This year’s New Year’s Honours list, announced today, includes a name well known in the world of funerals, and to many residents of Croydon and the surrounding districts. Tony Rowland, who lives in South Croydon, [...]
Project Te Auraki – Exhumation and Repatriation of NZDF Personell
Rowland Brothers Exhumation Services Ltd have been working with the Royal New Zealand Navy & the New Zealand High Commission in London for over a year, arranging & conducting the exhumation & repatriation of Philip [...]
The Old Chapel – South Ockendon
Exhumation, removal & re-burial of Human Remains from the site of the Old Chapel, North Road, South Ockendon, on behalf of Amanda Blundel & Carmen Lyons. Set up & method: The initial client enquiry [...]
High Street, Gorleston-on-Sea
Exhumation, removal & re-burial of Human Remains from the site at High Street, Gorleston-On-Sea, Norfolk, on behalf of JD Wetherspoon plc. July 2017 Set-up & Method: The initial client enquiry came from Dennis Payne [...]
King Square Estate – Islington
Exhumation, removal & re-burial of disseminated bones (Human & animal) found during construction of a tower block in Islington, Greater London, on behalf of Higgins Construction Ltd Set-up & Method: The initial set-up underwent several [...]
Insight Into Exhumation
Church Councillors planning developments within the burial grounds will expect to have to deal with exhumation as part of the project. Project Managers on un-consecrated ground may not. Either way, should it happen, someone [...]
Czuma Brothers Return
In July 2004 I left London early, wishing to be in Wrexham in time for the cremation service. Months earlier I had the honour of being tasked, by Warsaw City Council, with bringing the [...]
WW2 Hero Major Sporny Repatriated Home
On Monday 30th December 1940 Flying Officer Kazimierz Sporny stood before his squadrons Intelligence Officer and claimed a BF109. It was a personal landmark for the young airman, his first confirmed ‘Kill’ flying with the [...]
Highgate Cemetery & ‘Lift & Lower’
A few weeks before Christmas, at the start of what now appears to be Britain’s Monsoon Season, I accepted a kind and much sought after invitation from Justin Bickersteth of the ‘Friends of Highgate Cemetery [...]