P. Loftus & Son - Independent Manchester Funeral Directors since 1887. We offer a dedicated, sympathetic and professional service.
We are a well established independent Family Funeral Director with over four generations of expertise. We are located in Chorlton, Manchester on Barlow Moor Road directly opposite Manchester Crematorium and Southern Cemetery we cover all surrounding areas. Our company has grown through establishing a high reputation with many personal recommendations. Philip Loftus, the founder of the company, entered the funeral profession in 1887 and since then his descendants have carried on the family business with his great grandson taking the tradition to the fourth generation. We believe that a funeral should be arranged to fulfil the needs and requirements of the families or individuals and therefore pride ourselves on the wide choice of services which we provide. The care taken in providing these services has helped us establish a highly trusted and personally recommended firm of funeral directors.
10/12/2025
We’re pleased to announce the return of Light a Candle this Christmas!
Taking part in this Christmas’s Light a Candle gives you the opportunity to create online memorials throughout the festive period.
Christmas is a special time to celebrate with family and friends, and our virtual candles are a thoughtful way to pay tribute to loved ones who are no longer with us.
We'll be sharing virtual candles on our page between 15 and 21 December. There's no cost for you or your family to get involved and create an online memorial.
We look forward to sharing your memorials from 15 December.
16/06/2025
Thank you to everyone who has created an online remembrance candle to help honour the memories of your loved ones this Father’s Day. Below, we have the final candles that were submitted.
15/06/2025
Thank you so much to everyone who has submitted a remembrance candle so far. The opportunity to create a candle will come to an end today (Sunday 15 June).
Candles submitted before 5pm today will be shared on our page on Monday 16 June.
Thank you to everyone who’s submitted a memorial candle so far. We’ve now started to create your personalised digital candle posts, and they’ll begin to appear on our page shortly.
If you don't see your candle, please don't worry, we’ll share it soon. If you’d like to submit a candle for a loved one, you can do so by clicking the link below.
Remember your loved ones this Father’s Day. From the 2nd until the 16th of June, we’ll be posting remembrance candles as a special token to those who can’t be with us this Father’s Day.
If you would like to create a virtual candle, please click the link below where you can choose a design and write a short message to a loved one.
Your candles will be posted to our page throughout the period.
We know how important it is to remember the special people in our lives who are no longer with us.
That’s why we’re pleased to offer you the opportunity to create virtual remembrance candles with our Light a Candle campaign for Father’s Day.
We’ll post the memorials on our page between the 2nd and the 16th of June for you to see and share.
There is no cost for you or your family to get involved. Look out for updates...
30/03/2025
Thank you so much to everyone who has submitted a remembrance candle so far. Our candle initiative will come to an end today (Sunday 30 March).
Candles submitted before 5pm today will be shared on our page on Monday 31 March.
We’d like to thank everyone who’s created a virtual candle for their loved one so far.
Here are some more memorial candles. If you’d like to submit a candle for a loved one, you can do so by clicking the link below.
Thank you to everyone who’s submitted a memorial candle so far. We’ve now started to create your personalised virtual candle posts, and they’ll begin to appear on our page shortly.
If you don't see your candle yet, please don't worry, we’ll share it soon. If you’d like to submit a candle for a loved one, you can do so by clicking the link below.
Remember your loved ones this Mother’s Day. From 17 March - 31 March we’ll be posting remembrance candles as a special token to those who can’t be with us this Mother’s Day.
If you would like to create a remembrance candle, please click the link below where you can choose a design and write a short message to a loved one.
Your candles will be posted to our page throughout the period.
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The Story of The Beginnings of P.Loftus & Son of Manchester, Family Funeral Directors
Well, it actually all began after the River Medlock in Manchester flooded! There’s a cemetery – Phillips Park Cemetery – which is now opposite Man City’s new football ground, and the river runs close by to it. My great-great-grandfather was a coffin maker for a firm of funeral directors at the time, and when the river flooded, the water disturbed the earth and the bodies in the graves rose up and were washed all along the river.
My grandfather volunteered to help with the removal of these bodies, and because many of them were Roman Catholic priests, they had to be re-interred in a Local Catholic cemetery after being collected. He stayed on to help with this part of the process as well, and got to thinking: ‘If I can move bodies from a river, I may as well give the whole business a go on my own!’
He opened up his shop, originally, in the Hulme area, Moss Side, which is a massive conurbation of houses, and the business remained there until the mid sixties until the regeneration of Manchester began. During the initial phase of the slum clearances, his shop location kept getting moved on from one place to another due to council compulsory purchases, so this caused him to eventually shut the business, meaning that, for a year or two thereafter, there was actually no existing P. Loftus & Son!
My dad had worked alongside my grandfather in his younger years before the closure, so after he came back from his national service, he decided to re-open the business around ‘67 or ‘68; it’s thanks to his incredibly hard work that the business is actually now thriving.
He was very well known in the area – having grown up there – so even when certain families in council housing moved out to other areas of Manchester, they still came back to my dad because they remember the family name and the great service.
