by Steven Horton | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
New Year traditions vary around the world. In the South American country of Chile New Years Eve is now spent by many families visiting the graves of their loved ones. The practice is believed to have started in 1995 in the city of Talca, 158 miles south of the capital...
by Steven Horton | Dec 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
As Christmas approaches, its a time to reflect on the year gone by. We are Liverpool’s oldest family run monumental mason business and we have continued to get great satisfaction from the customer feedback we get when jobs are completed. The memorials and...
by Steven Horton | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Floral grave images can add to a memorial, bringing a sense of sorrow, love and warmth to your loved one’s final resting place. They can also add brightness and colour, helping celebrate their life rather than mourn it. There is no end to the number of designs...
by Steven Horton | Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Tenants’ Forum at Stockbridge Village are installing a new memorial on Remembrance Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Stockbridge Village celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2016. It was initially developed as...
by Steven Horton | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Headstone safety is not something that should be taken for granted, even for relatively recent memorials. It is so easy to assume that it is only headstones from the Victorian era that will be laid flat in cemeteries, but that needn’t be the case at all. One of...
by Steven Horton | Oct 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
John Ryle, who was appointed the first Bishop of Liverpool when the diocese was created in 1880, is buried in the churchyard at All Saints Church, Childwall. Ryle was the son of a banker from Henbury, near Macclesfield in Cheshire. He was born in 1816 and went to...
by Steven Horton | Sep 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Sarsfield Memorials is Liverpool’s longest running family run memorial mason business, operating since 1947. Most of our work comes through personal recommendation and repeat orders, and we believe that our policy of coming to you for the initial discussion on...
by Steven Horton | Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are now less than one hundred days to go until Christmas. It will be here much sooner than you think. If you are looking to have a memorial installed by then, have remedial work done or use our Christmas grave visits services, you need to get your orders in...
by Steven Horton | Aug 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
St Peter’s Church Woolton, Liverpool is visited by scores of Beatles fans every day to see the grave of Eleanor Rigby. It is also the final resting place of former Liverpool FC manager Bob Paisley, the only British boss to win three European Cups. In addition...
by Steven Horton | Aug 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Around three quarters of funerals in the United Kingdom nowadays involve a cremation rather than burial. This compares to just a third sixty years ago. However, along with this move towards cremation, there is also an increasing trend for families to inter their loved...
