Around lunchtime, in 1975, she was asked by her mother to go from her home to a local shop on nearby Ansdell Road to buy bread and air-freshener. The children had a rota for chores and for Lesley, such an errand would have been considered routine in that culture and era. Walking alone in a blue raincoat, and with £1 in cash and a blue canvas bag, she was last seen by witnesses in secluded Stiups Lane. When Lesley failed to return home, her concerned mother sent her siblings out to look for her, and her step-father also joined the search. At 3:00p.m., with no sign of her, and no evidence that she had arrived at the shops, the Rochdale Police were contacted.