We are now able to announce full details for Joe’s funeral arrangements which give everyone in his home city of Hull and his adopted home of Blackpool the opportunity to say their goodbyes to him.

His funeral is to take place over three days starting this Sunday 11th August 2019 when Joe’s cortège will drive to his sister Ann’s house in Hull where he will lay in rest overnight.

On Monday 12th August 2019, at 11am , Joe’s funeral procession will proceed around his home streets of Hull . The route will be Cavil Place, Coltman Street, past the Ryder Club and on to Hessle Road where he is be conducted up and down the thoroughfare ,as he himself liked to do whenever he was back home. The procession will then go past his late parents’ home before returning to Heavenly Services Funeral Directors on Hessle Road. Joe will then travel back to Blackpool to rest at home overnight.

On Tuesday 13th August 2019 the funeral cortege will leave Joe’s home in Layton at 11am and proceed through Layton High Street, towards Church Street and past The Music Hall Tavern, Winter Gardens, The Grand Theatre, Viva Blackpool and along the seafront past The North Pier to arrive at The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church for a full Requiem Mass commencing at 12noon.Traditional funeral dress is advisable and this is a public service as Joe wanted.

The burial is to take place in Layton Cemetery shortly afterwards and Jamie and the family would like to invite everyone back to Viva Blackpool to remember Joe in a suitable style which he himself would have approved of.

Please send any floral tributes you may wish to send to Box Brothers Ltd,13-15 Hawes Side Lane,Blackpool FY4 4APto arrive between 3pm-5pm on Monday 12th August2019.