H Noble Funeral Directors Ltd

H Noble Funeral Directors Ltd Independent family owned funeral directors established in Thanet since 1854.

Swipe to see the difference over 100 years! ↔️📸 Our offices were once farmland in St Peter’s Broadstairs, some features ...
09/10/2024

Swipe to see the difference over 100 years! ↔️📸

Our offices were once farmland in St Peter’s Broadstairs, some features are still visible in the oldest central part of our premises still today. 🐑🎩

🎩 Why do you bow to the hearse? Bowing and paging (walking in front of the hearse) are ways we mark respect to the perso...
02/10/2024

🎩 Why do you bow to the hearse?

Bowing and paging (walking in front of the hearse) are ways we mark respect to the person in our care.

Since 1854 every person we have carried out a funeral for has been led away from our office by a funeral conductor who walks in front of the hearse. (Not all the way, thankfully. But back in the day when cemeteries were closer than the distances we go now we did!)

The conductor pages out from our office, then to and from the place of service or the family home and again at the place we lay them to rest, such as a cemetery or crematorium.

Then finally one last time we bow as the coffin is placed on the catafalque or in to the grave.

It is said one of the most defining differences between us and animals and what makes us human in our nature is that we bury those of us who pass away.

🎩 Not long now until we change over to our winter uniform. And this year we have had a bit of a change up to the style o...
01/10/2024

🎩 Not long now until we change over to our winter uniform.
And this year we have had a bit of a change up to the style of our uniform 👀 all will be revealed soon!

Harry Noble is the current managing director of H Noble Funeral Directors and the Chief Executive of the H Noble Group. ...
17/09/2024

Harry Noble is the current managing director of H Noble Funeral Directors and the Chief Executive of the H Noble Group. Harry has worked at the business since he was 18 working his way up from a funeral service operative to his role today.

Harry took over from his grandmother Lynne when covid hit and the risk to Lynne’s health given her pre-existing health concerns was deemed a danger given the close proximity we were working with those infected or who had sadly lost their lives to the virus.

Harry is committed to continuing the business and developing practice to incorporate our deep rooted traditions and modern practice.

Lynne Noble married Andrew Noble and began working for the business after giving birth to her son Ian, she mainly did ad...
17/09/2024

Lynne Noble married Andrew Noble and began working for the business after giving birth to her son Ian, she mainly did admin at first but over the years took part in all aspects of the business.

Lynne took over the helm following her husbands passing in 2011, helping to arrange and carry out her husbands funeral as well as the other funerals we had on at the time.

Lynne ran the company from 2011 until 2020 when Covid hit and the risk of coming to work was a danger considering her pre-existing health conditions, she passed the responsibility on to her grandson Harry Noble, Lynne managed admin from home and eventually stepped down in 2022. Lynne is now retired spending her time on the golf course and with her grandchildren.


Andrew Noble ran the business once his father retired until his passing following a diagnosis of cancer in 2011. Andrew ...
16/09/2024

Andrew Noble ran the business once his father retired until his passing following a diagnosis of cancer in 2011.

Andrew was incredibly passionate about the business and local community. He was heavily involved in charity work and local causes. He advanced the business in to the technological age moving from type writers and hand written estimates to printed documents and brochures for clients. He was an incredibly talented funeral director with an eye for the profession that excelled the business in to a bespoke funeral service it is today.
Allot of his ideas and traditions are dictate how we operate today along with long standing traditions from the past and modern practice to give our clients the best we can offer.

Andrew affectionately known to most as Andy was well known within the Broadstairs and St Peter’s area and is dearly missed by all at H Noble. He may be gone but certainly will not be forgotten.


Alan Noble worked as early as his teens at the firm before the outbreak of World War Two when he was enlisted in the RAF...
16/09/2024

Alan Noble worked as early as his teens at the firm before the outbreak of World War Two when he was enlisted in the RAF driving trucks in Africa.
His father Harry served in the home guard in St Peter’s and ran the funeral directors.

Upon Alan’s return he took over running the company completely following his father’s passing in the 1970s.

Alan once again modernised the funeral directors to reflect the post war age.


Cllr. Harry Noble JnrHarry Noble Jnr. took over the business following his father’s passing with the help of his mother ...
16/08/2024

Cllr. Harry Noble Jnr

Harry Noble Jnr. took over the business following his father’s passing with the help of his mother and wife. Situated at 1 Northdown Road and continuing the construction side of the company until his later years when this was stopped and the company focused solely on funerals.

With the outbreak of the First World War Harry was enlisted to the Royal Naval Air Service as a mechanic posted in Belgium while his wife and son ran the company in his absence. During this time we helped to fit black outs in the windows of homes to stop the German bombers being able to navigate at night.
We also carried our allot of repair and cleaning work to buildings that were damaged in the air raids.

Upon Harry’s return from the war he ran as Mayor of St Peter’s as well as church warden for St Peter’s Church, he donated his time and money to the church over his life time, including two chalices to the church and in return on his death the church dedicated a pew to his memory.

Harry lived at No1 Northdown Road until his death in the 1970s, he had made his own coffin ready many years before from solid oak. His son Alan Noble took over the company on his passing.

Harry Noble Harry Noble Snr. took over the company following his father’s passing continuing the successful building and...
07/08/2024

Harry Noble

Harry Noble Snr. took over the company following his father’s passing continuing the successful building and undertaking business his father had established in 1854.
Harry faced the first real changes for the funeral industry as it moved from old fashioned Undertaking to the first steps of modern Funeral Directing. The death and state funeral of Queen Victoria showed the world that a funeral didn’t have to be dictated to by the undertaker, it could be a display of not only affection for those who passed but also a display of wealth with personalisation at the forefront.
It was under Harry that the first motor hearse was purchased for the company, this was the second motor car in the village of St. Peters. There was also the development of a dedicated workshop for making coffins built behind the office site separate to the builder’s yard.
Harry left for London in his later years on his own and little is known about what he did while in the city, telegrams to a hotel and various hospitals in London show his wife and son trying to reach him and the only response they received according to our records is a telegram from the police to notify them he had passed away and would be returning to Broadstairs via train in the coming days.
Despite his absence in his later life Harrys funeral was reportedly well attended and he was buried in the Churchyard following a service in St. Peters Church.

Henry William Thomas Andrew Noble 1854 (Founder)In 1854 aged just 24 years Henry Noble moved from Canterbury after leavi...
31/07/2024

Henry William Thomas Andrew Noble 1854 (Founder)
In 1854 aged just 24 years Henry Noble moved from Canterbury after leaving his grandfather’s firm ‘W. R. Noble & Sons Furniture Makers and Undertakers’ to start his own company in Broadstairs- Where the family already had roots and connections prior to the brief move to Canterbury.
Settling in the seaside town of Ramsgate with his wife Elizabeth Henry opened up shop in St. Peters after buying farmland and a builders yard next to land his father owned from ‘Strevens Brothers Undertakers’ of Broadstairs. Some of the site he purchased we still occupy to this day as residential property and the Funeral Directors office and Garages.
The builders yard stretched from 1 Northdown Road up to the undertakers located at 103 Church Street at the other end, where we remained until his son Harry moved the company into the building we still use today at 1 Northdown Road.
Henry and his wife eventually moved to St. Peters once their cottage had been built on the site of the builders yard and the family have lived in the village ever since, many manholes and buildings built by the family in St Peters still have ‘H. Noble’ inscribed on them from building works carried out over 100 years.
1854- Notable Events: The reigning monarch was Queen Victoria, Louis Vuitton is Founded, Oscar Wilde is Born.

👔 Jay looking very smart in his summer uniform, (despite the non-stop rain this morning 😬🎩)
09/07/2024

👔 Jay looking very smart in his summer uniform, (despite the non-stop rain this morning 😬🎩)

Address

1 Northdown Road
Broadstairs
CT102UL

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441843862503

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