Fred Piggott was a foreman at the weaving shed on the second floor of Hardcastle's Mill and a resident of 13 Coronation Street from 1902 to 1919. His wife Emma worked under him, as did several other Coronation Street residents. After the deaths of his sons Vic and Bob in the war, and Emma's death from influenza in 1918, Fred gave up the tenancy of No.13 to help his widowed sister run a draper's shop in Norwich.