James Brothers is the oldest Independent Funeral Directors in the South Hams and Plymouth area, having been run by the same family since the 1850's
Leeds House, Colebrook Road, Colebrook, Plympton
Plymouth
PL74AA
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James Brothers Funeral Directors is the Plymouth areas oldest small independent Funeral Directors in the Plymouth area, having been established in Brixton, around 1870 by Ned (Edward James).
Although at the start Funeral Directing was not exactly a business per se, rather an extension of an existing profession, in Ned’s case carpentry, it was something that would grow into a profession over time.
The business passed from Ned to his son Harold who saw sweeping changes as where once all the villages would have had their own Undertakers, the improvement in transport meant that a single Directors would find themselves covering multiple villages. Harold retired reluctantly in 1960 and his son Allan took over, provisioning it with it’s own set of cars, and latterly a Chapel of Rest. The business then passed to his half brother Ralph in 1996, who ran it with his wife Penny from their home, The Grindstone in Brixton. In 2002, their son Tim joined them and in 2017, realising that Ralph was beginning to struggle with the everyday running of things, they began to look for a premises away from the family home. Although they could not find anything in Brixton, they discovered a new home in Colebrook, Plympton.
In 2018, with Ralph battling ill health Tim took over a bit more suddenly than was expected, and now runs things from their offices at Leeds House. He is, however, determined not to break ties with the village and lives there with his family.
