Set in a fictional Lancashire town in 1929, In loving memory depicts the hilarious events that occur in an undertaker's business when the owner dies, leaving his sensible widow Ivy to carry on with the help of her naÞive and clumsy nephew, Billy. Whether dealing with stray coffins, local busybodies, dishonest rivals or faulty hearses, Ivy always manages to cope, while Billy's best intentions usually end in laughable disaster.