'It's Dead in Here'

Pam from the Cooperative Funeral Parlour at 80 Chatsworth Road has a good sense of humour. 'It's dead in here', she cackles, enjoying the pun. 'Even here we are suffering from lack of business. People have to register their deaths at the Town Hall in Mare Street where there is a co-op so we get left out. We do have a chapel of rest here but it is rather damp. The council planted a tree outside – we didn’t want it – it went through a gas main.'