Jackie Rigby was a tenant of 9 Coronation Street from 1946 to 1950. Before living in Coronation Street, he lived at 5 Crimea Street with Alf Nuttall, the father of his late wife Iris who died in the Blitz in 1940, until their house was blown up when the Army detonated an unexploded bomb found in the yard. Ena Sharples took him under her wing and managed to get him off the drink but he then scarpered as he thought Ena wanted him to marry her. Jackie and Alf did a moonlight flit in May 1950, owing three weeks' rent.