Alice Parsons

Alice Parsons was the owner of an old stone house in East End, which she inherited from her parents.

On 11 November 1959, she gave birth to a daughter Catherine Grace Parsons out of wedlock. She gave her for adoption to a couple from Stoke Newington.

Her husband died many years before the 1990s.

After that, she lived alone, rarely leaving the house and ordering everything to be delivered to her door. She did not want to leave the house for fear that Catherine may come looking for her. Alice collected children's comics in case her daughter ever finds her. On Catherine's birthdays, Alice would bake a cake and write a letter to Catherine, addressed to the adoption agency but never mailed. In 2016, Tanya Adeola found these letters unopened in the attic.

One day she caught a glimpse of the reflection of the Female bone spider in the television. Several days later, Alice lost her footing on the stairs and was saved from a nasty fall only by the intervention of the spider. They became unlikely friends, with the spider showing Alice images of Catherine.

Constantine Oliver visited Alice and offered her to buy the house from her, moving her herself to a nursing home. She refused, but he continued his efforts. Once, unseen due to the spider's invisibility web, Alice observed him breaking into her house.

By November 2014, Alice was becoming weak and was worried what would happen with the bone spiders without her. She changed her will so that the house first be kept as is for a year and then be given to a charity for refugees.

Alice died in July 2015. In her will, she also asked to bury her in their family vault in Kensal Green cemetery, left open for fear of premature burial. She also asked to locate her daughter but with delicacy as her daughter did not know her mother. (PROSE: The Stone House)