That young director must have been Howard Hodgson, who conducted my grandfather's (1976), and my father's (1977) funerals with great style! He went on to build up the business and then sell it for an amazing amount of money!
The young Howard (he of the toe labels) is now an author and lives in Malta, see:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bed-and-board-howard-s-way-1255061.html
and:
A new book on Charles casts the prince in an unusually favourable light, as a good man and loving father. All the rest is myth, says author Howard Hodgson, who researched his subject for four years. Here he talks to Sandra Aquilina
www.independent.com.mt
His great grandfather knew my great grandmother, Louisa Farrell the midwife, from the days when they both lived in Aston and they were good friends all their lives, sometimes known as the "hatch and dispatch" pair. Following Louisa's move to a bigger house in Handsworth and her need for a new bedroom suite, it was made in the coffin making workshop at Hodgeson's! I still have the chest of drawers which was part of it! Old Mr. Hodgson also, of course, knew Louisa's sister Edith Littley, and she worked for him as receptionist, living "over the shop" at their office premises next door to the "Queen's Head" pub, near the Regal cinema. With such connections, I believe my grandmother "walked out" for a short while with the next generation Mr. Hodgson, but years later, my mother sent her counterpart packing very quickly!