Summers Memorials

Summers Memorials is a memorial mason based in Bristol that has been supplying memorials, headstones and tombstones since 1906. It operates a memorial retail shop open to the public and is a BRAMM Approved, Registered and Licensed Memorial Mason. The company guarantees all its work for a 30 year period and is an MS-Group Company.

Its masonry works uses modern high tech memorial manufacturing equipment including routers, saws, polishing machines, coring rigs, auto-sandblast units and a water re-cycling plant, while its site has modern lifting and handling plant and equipment including mini-cranes, forklifts, a 15 tonne gantry crane, motorised lifting rigs, vacuum lift and grab-lift machines. It holds an extensive and diverse range of granites, marbles, sandstones and limestones from all corners of the world. It provides memorials, headstones, tombstones, monuments, land-marks and buildings.

Services include memorial and architectural masonry conservation and restoration, memorial aftercare, fine-craft etching, memorial installation, memorial insurance, memorial refurbishment, South Bristol Memorials, Memorial Woodlands, pet memorials and Easy Pay Memorial Plans. It supports its partner Stone Sign Co. in offering bespoke Memorial Pebbles for the Believe Garden at Northern Cemetery, Cardiff. It serves cemeteries including Arnos Vale, Avonview, Canford, Filton, Greenbank, Henbury, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Mayshill, Shirehampton and South Bristol.

Summers Memorials handles memorial work that ranges from new headstones to refurbishment and grave restoration, and the feedback gathered from customers centres on how smoothly those projects are managed. Several reviewers describe the process being explained step by step from the first enquiry, with clear communication maintained until the stone is fixed in place. Simone is named repeatedly for the patient, sensitive way she guides families through decisions about inscriptions and designs, and Dudley is also mentioned for handling requests and queries with assurance.

The finish itself attracts consistent praise: headstones are re-engraved and gilded to include additional names, plaques and interments are completed as agreed, and restoration work on weathered family graves in Bristol is carried out from photographs supplied by customers who cannot visit. Reviewers note that quotes are provided promptly, that the work is often finished sooner than expected, and that photographs of completed restoration are sent for approval. A recurring point is the craftsmanship of the final stone, described as flawless and exactly as hoped, with families expressing relief that the last thing they could do for a relative was handled so carefully. Tidiness and respect around the grave are also remarked upon.