Harold Lilleker & Sons Ltd - Independent Family Funeral Directors

14/11/2025

🔊Weather and roads update: Unfortunately isn't being kind to us and we've had to close the A617 approach to Chesterfield due to Hornsbridge flooding. We've also closed Tom Lane in Duckmanton due to flooding causing an issue to vehicles.
🌧️Motorists travelling on the A6 at Darley Dale, along the stretch near Haddon Hall between Bakewell and Rowsley and Ashford-in-the-Water are also urged to drive with extreme caution due to surface water causing issues.

14/11/2025

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Judi Dench has her own “secret woodland” on her six-acre property in Surrey — and it’s more than just a garden.

For decades, she’s planted a tree every time someone she loves passes away, turning the grove into a living memorial. She even planted one for her husband, actor Michael Williams, after he died in 2001.

In the 2017 BBC documentary Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees, she said these trees feel like part of her “extended family,” a place where memories can keep growing.

A beautiful reminder that even in loss, something meaningful can grow.

14/11/2025

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Today, we’re asking for your help.

We’ve launched an urgent appeal to save two of the nine specialist beds that are due to close because Ashgate Hospice isn’t being funded fairly.

If nothing changes, North Derbyshire will be left with just six specialist hospice beds. That means more people reaching the end of their lives without the expert care they need - and deserve.

But together, we can make a difference. We’re hoping to raise £244,000 to keep two of those beds open for the next six months. That would mean around 25 of the most unwell people can receive the care they need, and the people important to them can be supported through an incredibly difficult time. And if our community raises even more, those beds could stay open for longer.

Every pound you give will go straight to frontline care. It means nurses at the bedside. Symptoms eased. Comfort, dignity and expert support when every moment matters.

Our community has already shown extraordinary generosity - and today, we’re asking again for your help to protect the care that means so much to so many.

Please give what you can to help save a precious bed. Every single hour of care makes a difference.

Find out more and donate online: www.ashgatehospice.org.uk/precious-bed

Pictured: An empty hospice bed at Ashgate Hospice.

14/11/2025

🎄 It’s set up day- The Christmas Trees are back 🎄

A huge thank you to the amazing team at the Crooked Spire for this wonderful event.  🎄 🙏

14/11/2025

This year Lilleker’s have supported Chesterfield Air Cadets again ✈️

Helping them showcase their talents at the Crooked Spire Christmas Tree Festival brings us joy 🎄

We hope you like it ❤️

13/11/2025

Mrs Mary Martin Wallace Clark of Heather Vale Care Home, Chesterfield has passed away on the 3rd November 2025 aged 93 years.

Born in Ayr and a resident of the Chesterfield area for over 50 years.
Mary left school at the age of 13 and went to work in an accounts office in Prestwick dealing with specifically farm accounts and left after 13 years.

In the late 1970s worked as a domestic service
manager at Walton Hospital until her
retirement in 1992.

Her interests included singing, music, W.I., family, walking, and reading. She sang with Chesterfield Philharmonic Choir, played guitar, sang in a group Foljambe Folk and was a member of St Andrew's UR Church.

Mary leaves her daughter Rosemary, grandchildren Ben and Heather, great-grandchildren Henry, Isobel, and Matilda and a brother Peter.

Her funeral service takes place on Friday, November 21, Chesterfield Crematorium, at 10.30 a.m., followed
memorial service at St Andrew's United Reformed Church, Newbold, at 11.15am.

For more information please contact Lilleker Funeral Directors Hasland & Whittington Moor Funeral Homes on 01246 277095

13/11/2025

Thank you to a lovely family 🙏🦋

11/11/2025

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them.

Today is Armistice Day 🇬🇧

In a few minutes at 11am today the 11th November

- a moment that paved the way for peace.

We will remember them. 🌹

10/11/2025

Ian West of Walton has passed away peacefully at home on 30th October 2025, as he wished, with his wife and two sons by his side.

Born in Bolsover, Ian moved to Hasland at the age of ten and spent the past forty-five years living in Walton.

He began his career at the AGD before working at Sheepbridge Engineering and Coalite, later joining the NHS where he served for over thirty years as a finance officer and auditor.

A lifelong supporter of Chesterfield Football Club, Ian followed the Spireites from an early age after being taken to matches by his father. He was an avid collector of vinyl records, a keen reader and a great lover of travel, visiting many countries over the years. Ian also enjoyed taking part in pub quizzes.
Ian adored his three grandchildren and cherished every moment spent with his family.

Beloved husband of Jackie, devoted dad of Christopher and Stephen, father-in-law of Claire and Sarah, and proud grandad to Annabelle, Harriet and William. Also brother to Richard, brother-in-law to Graham, uncle to Tony and Paul, and son-in-law to Phyllis.

He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.

His funeral service will take place at Chesterfield Crematorium on Wednesday 19th November at 3.30pm.

Enquiries to Harold Lilleker & Sons Ltd, Funeral Directors (Hasland, Chesterfield) 01246 277095

10/11/2025

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Light up a Life, supported by Harold Lilleker and Sons ltd, which runs throughout winter, gives you the opportunity to celebrate someone you love.

10/11/2025

How we like to start the week 🎩 💚

Thankyou to a lovely family 🙏

10/11/2025

** Be Quick **

🎸 For those who couldn’t get tickets for Jonathan & his band on Friday here is the link for February 🎸

**SELLING OUT FAST**

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