This team have many roles behind the scenes, such as maintaining our funeral fleet, running the workshop, keeping the grounds tidy, providing support at funerals, transporting the deceased into our care and acting as bearers.
Dennis John Bewley begun the business D.J. Bewley Funeral Directors after working life as a Carpenter/ Funeral Director for a firm called Mortimer’s. During this time, Dennis used to construct all the coffins by hand.
In 1970 Bewley Funeral Directors became established and Dennis began running the business from his residential home address at Roundponds, Melksham. Shortly after, the business moved to a premise in Church Street Car Park, Melksham where his son Patrik joined him in 1980.
In 1997 Dennis sadly passed away leaving Patrik to run day to day operations of D.J. Bewley Funeral Directors with his Wife Cheryl.
In 2002 D.J. Bewley Funeral Directors moved the location of the business across the car park to 15 Bank Street. Here, we are able to keep everything in house including the chapel of rest, reception rooms and vehicles under one roof. The Bank Street location now has a high street presence and is more accessible for day to day enquiries.
In 2003 Ryan Bewley (3rd generation) joined the business and Bewley Funeral Directors expanded to Duke Street, Trowbridge. The aim was to give families more choice and offer families a local independent service due to nearly all of the other funeral directors being taken over by large corporations. The site includes a chapel of rest facility.
In December 2010 D.J. Bewley expanded the Trowbridge Outlet and has an additional office at 4 Manvers Street. The move to a very high prominent position in Trowbridge town centre will allow families easier access to our services. The Manvers Street site now incorporates a high quality florist (Flowers in Focus) to assist in the funeral work and supply funeral tributes. The Duke Street location is solely used as a chapel of Rest to ensure families get peacefulness when visiting their loved ones.
In 2014 we were able to make it easier for our clients in nearby Devizes to access our services when we opened a full branch office in Devizes at 64 New Park Street, SN10 1DP. Our Devizes office offers our complete range of personalised funeral arrangements, along with a mortuary and chapel of rest, and has a set of service rooms available with a sound system, projector and screen, accommodating up to 40 people.
As we continue to expand across north west Wiltshire, we added an office in central Bradford-on-Avon to our portfolio in 2022. We are situated at 3 Silver Street, BA15 1JX where we have a friendly representative and a meeting room for quiet consultations with the bereaved regarding funeral arrangements.
We have installed the very latest equipment at all of our offices, and our interviewing lounges provide an atmosphere of comfort and tranquillity. I hope you find our service to be personal, helpful, efficient and unobtrusive.
At D.J. Bewley Funeral Directors we believe in maintaining the highest levels of service possible, in all areas of our business; from caring for the deceased, to assisting and advising the bereaved with all due care and sensitivity. We understand that a funeral holds a special place in the memory and so we pay careful attention to every detail and request, to create a special day for those lost and those that mourn.
Reasons to choose D.J. Bewley as your funeral director:
The independent funeral profession has a long and proud history of personal service to local communities. Carrying on the family tradition is a way of life for us as independent funeral directors. We are deeply committed to upholding professional standards. Some of the oldest continuously operated businesses in Britain are family-owned firms.
In all forms of business today there are big, international companies that have made their profits by taking over small firms. The funeral profession is no exception. Many businesses have been swallowed up by the giants. The trouble is, there usually isn’t any change of name to tell you the difference. We are still the same family behind our name which you can trust when making funeral arrangements.
All our attention is concentrated on meeting the needs of our friends and neighbours. We are not distracted or bound by corporate rules handed down from head office. We are flexible, and responsive to your needs.
We take great pride in our funeral homes and our vehicles. We are also proud of our staff, for whom we maintain a regular training programme to ensure the highest level of professional service.
We answer to you. In our locally owned firm there is no pressure from head office to increase profits at the expense of service. We know our business will do well when we serve you well.
Just as you do, we turn to our local firms for services and products. We choose to do business with people we know and trust. Whenever possible, we also support local charities and community organizations such as the Melksham Friendship Group (to help the recently bereaved to get out and meet new friendly people). Because we understand the needs of the community, we can best provide special services to local families.
We are proud to be members of the National Society of Independent Funeral Directors, the only professional organisation in the UK exclusively dedicated to serving local independent family-owned funeral directors and their communities.
