A BRIDESTOWE funeral director made an appearance on television last Friday (January 24), in the re-enactment of a Dartmoor murder mystery.
George Heathman had been specially commissioned to make a coffin in a late 1920s design out of elm, with old-fashioned fittings and a traditional wooden wheel bier for a burial scene in the Carlton ITV programme Murder Most Foul.
The production company told George he was the only undertaker they could find who still made their own coffins. George is the fourth generation of his family to become a funeral director.
George took part in the filming of a paupers funeral at Postbridge Church last autumn, dressed in top hat, morning coat and black woollen gloves, with pall bearers in bowler hats, coats and gloves. PC Simon Dell also made an appearance on the programme giving a history of the police investigation at the time into the death of a man found dead on Dartmoor.