F. W. Paine Museum

In Old London Road, Kingston, near the "Out of Order" toppling telephone boxes, is the little-known museum of Frederick W Paine, the undertakers.

A lot of our members didn’t come for the visit, possibly because our older members might have found it a bit disturbing, so five intrepid members met by the phone boxes.

We had a warm welcome from Brian Parsons and two other staff members with tea, coffee, cakes, biscuits and fruit. Then, far from disturbing, we listened to a fascinating, illustrated talk on the history of undertaking in Britain and specifically Surrey.

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