They certainly did, I love Victorian architecture too. Ha ha yes, curved piano legs were compared to women's legs and thought of as rather saucy back then if they weren't covered! The costume I wore last November for a plaque unveiling I did (pics attached below) was bought. I'm not very clever enough to make anything like that. What a wonderful story about your grandmother. I have some original receipts for the Peter Robinson mourning warehouse which was situated in Oxford Street London (where Top Shop is now.) Mourning was such a big thing then, your funeral was the most important day of your life.
I think that was the case in many small churches and churchyards. I read of one place where the church floor rose by several inches due to a 'pile up' in the crypt!
Mourning warehouse.
Me at the plaque unveiling in West Norwood cemetery.