This move to England proved to be a great move indeed as the British public loved to pay over the top prices for anything connected to religion, and a Church based funeral directors hit home even harder.
Some people even gave their tithe money for nothing more than a few kind words, they didn't even ask for our guaranteed afterlife which was on offer.
Southampton turned out to be a gold mine, the new Church/funeral directors took the Southern counties by storm, no such thing as a 10% Bible bashers walking the streets and knocking on doors, no illustrated Wakey Wakey periodicals forced upon the unsuspecting, no need to attend Church on your day off work, just the simple guarantee of a life after death for a monthly cash subscription, 10% of peoples income, a bargain.
One type of business Des noticed to be missing in Southampton was Self Storage, this is an ideal opportunity to own a large warehouse at no cost to yourself, just by charging locals to rent some space it will pay for itself, leaving plenty of free storage space for use as the Church pleased.

The early 1960's heralded the U.K.'s first combined self-storage facility and Church, this was built in the luxurious St. Mary's area of Southampton. Self-storage was still a very new concept to the British public and it would take many years for it to catch on, this was mainly because the contents of most people’s homes around this time was just a lot of old crap.
Part of the self storage area was leased out to the Royal South Hants Hospital as a lucrative extension emergency mortuary, they had 382 chilled units reserved, the remaining 18 being for the Tenpasenta funeral service itself.
In 1979 all 400 chilled slots became used just by the funeral service, this was during Britain's Winter of Discontent 1978-1979 when many of the countries gravediggers went on strike and council cemeteries closed their gates, this meant many bodies were left unburied and lounging in mortuary freezers like his. At this time the Tenpasenta Church had no burial land of its own, and having used up most of the road central reservations in the area, and with woodland being guarded by Police, a new private Tenpasenta burial site was required. Finding land big enough for the Church and funeral requirements was going to be a tall order, but with "God" on his side and a new E-type Jaguar donated to the local Church of England Bishop, things were about to change, more later.
The St. Mary's building was only used until 1984 for the acceptance of tithe donations and storage, it was later to become a swimming pool, this was due to a design fault with the prefabrication used in its concrete construction, the building became overly damp causing the basement to flood, but from this disaster the Tenpasenta Old Society Swimming Association was born, members are still known as old Tossa's today, the Tenpasenta Water Association Team by another.

1980'ish a local derelict Church and its vast grounds was purchased within minutes of it coming on the market, its previous owner the Church of England had been forced to sell it on the orders of a local Bishop.
Unfortunately it turned out that most of the 200 acre site was part of the largest cemetery in Hampshire, with some parts dating back to Saxon times, and worst of all it was full up.
Beyond Historical interest and some local families who still brought flowers, it was deemed a useless piece of land in its current form, however fate smiled again on Des the vicar and within hours of purchase a freak accident occurred on a Road passing the site, a flatbed lorry from Yorkshire Opencast Mining Ltd crashed, and some excavating equipment fell from it and proceeded to remove six feet of top soil from almost the entire cemetery over the next five days, body remains became piled into one corner and headstones in another.
After this terrible event which coincedentaly replaced the soil and left a perfect piece of open land, Hampshire County Council granted planning permission to build anything on the site that Des wanted, and as long as "brown envelopes" continued to pass to a certain Councillor this could continue as long as required.
Building work soon began on the twenty five bedroom vicarage, a private crematorium, and plans made for a state of the art over ground burial system.
The new Tenpasenta Church Estate was on the map.

Above is the original First Church as it looks today, not quite as it was remembered by Des, or how it looked in the photo.
It has been estimated that only about 7% of the original structure arrived from America, if that, there are many stories about what may have happened, it could have been that Roy gave the contract for dismantling to his friends demolition company in 1970, another is the fact that he didn't work on the Queen Mary as it had been retired five years before the project started, which could help explain why what did arrive was all marked B&Q, a local new building supplier.
Pieced together it looks fairly good, and gets used regularly for budget service patrons, so it wasn't a total loss.
Rumour has it that this is in fact a Baptist & Quaker Church that vanished one weekend from Salem Massachusetts.
What can you expect when you employ family?

Because of the earlier setbacks with the wooden church Des the vicar decided to concentrate efforts on the original C of E Church which was on the site. Out went the broken windows, in came nice double glazed units, gone would be the aisle and pews, in would come comfy chairs and tables, it looked more like a plush hotel, it may have reduced the capacity from 200 to about 50, but they would be a comfortable 50.
The Tenpasenta Church has no boring sermons, just colour TV's and licensed bars.
The now "Premier" Church was used for pricey premier weddings, family members can see the visiting registrar marry the couple, either on the big screen TV's or the old fashioned way, and watch as the newlywed couple sign a substantial donation cheque afterwards.
The Church remains a luxurious place to relax and have a drink or funeral, new licensing laws mean we can open as long as we want, sometimes we go on as late as 9pm.
1985 and second son Mark Collyer was invited to supervise the vicar team, these were good times and money making Church based opportunities showed themselves in the most thinkable and unthinkable of places.

It had been noticed that every other Church in the country appeared to have a roof appeal every year, this must have brought them thousands of pounds in easy revenue from parishioners who believe those giant thermometers put outside actually effect the weather in some way. An idea was born and designs were made for a new Tenpasenta roof appeal scheme, this involved a special removable roof, it would mean that during the start of a roof appeal it could be taken off and put out of sight, and then quickly replaced once reporters had left and photos taken. The system worked a treat, and has so far been removed 19 times on the Tenpasenta Premier Church raising over £250,000.
The design has now been patented and sold around the world to less reputable Churches bringing in several millions of pounds as part of the Tenpasenta Roof Franchise.
Des the vicar passed away suddenly in 2001 following a severe case of not breathing after a heart attack. Mark was ordained Head vicar and expanded the Church in several more profitable directions. Today the Tenpasenta Group is the largest secular Church in the world with 10% of the earth's population donating regularly.