On the corner of Chadwell Street and Arlington Way in Clerkenwell is a two-storey terraced building with a painted advertisement on the side. “Thomas B. Treacy Funeral Directors”, it reads. And below that: “BURIALS, EMBALMING, CREMATIONS”.
As the façade suggests, the property was a funeral directors for 190 years, between 1820 and 2010. It was still an undertakers —complete with a morgue and coffins— in 2011, when it was purchased by its current owner, Keith Oliver.
