East-End London’s last Victorian funeral parlour to be restored

The shabby remains of a Victorian funeral parlour in East London is to be restored to its original appearance following the awarding of a grant by the Heritage of London Trust.
Situated on the busy Commercial Road near Canary Wharf, the small building dated from the 19th-century and had been a funeral parlour owned by the same family right up to 2008. They sold the ongoing business, but the new owner stripped away the building’s unique Grade II listed façade and removed all its hist