Just found your site and I’m posting on behalf of my mother who lived at 1 Asper Street, corner of Dunstan Road. In your posting you refer to Old Mother Lacey who kids believed was a witch. She was my great grandmother.
My mother, Joyce Hilda Mary Leaper (now Baker), her brother Ronald Leaper and their sister Doreen Leaper were brought up my Fred and Alice Lacey in Asper Street after the death of their father in 1930 and their mother in 1933. Joyce and Ron are still alive at 90 and 95. Doreen died in her thirties. Mrs & Mrs Lacey had 13 children, and lost three of them at vari