(21 Apr 2015, 3:03 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Hope you're alright, Lee. Like others have said, once the main ''church'' part of the funeral is over, and you have the party (if you want to call it that lol) afterwards, you can talk to all of the family member's friends, and sometimes find out stuff you had no idea of.Sounds like your granddad was a lovely bloke Marcus...
I remember it was really ''invite only'' to the event after my grandad's funeral, but what shocked me the most was how popular he was in the village of Pelton; at least 250 people showed up to the church!
I will never forget my nanas funeral, I knew she was popular, well liked and a respected District Nurse, Nothing prepared me for what I seen at her funeral, Holy Trinity Church was absolutely rammed, standing room only, people had to gather in the playroom at the back and were standing in the corridor entrance, there must have been 200-300 people...
I remember my granddad telling me about one of my cousins funeras whe died of a heart attack at 34, his funeral was huge, he was very good friends with a lot pf Gypsies and he said loads of Gypsies was at his funeral, my granddad said what happened was disgusting and disgraceful, as he was well known to the Police a couple of coppers in plain clothes turned up at the funeral watching The Gypsies that turned up...That is shocking and disgraceful in my opinion..
Another amusing tale, though a wedding, not a funeral when, my Uncle married my aunt, who is from Belfast, it was in Murton, loads of people from Northern Ireland came over and the Police apparantly had a bit of a panic when a load of Northern Irish Registered Cars and Vehicles descended on Murton...This was at the height of The Troubles in 1988