Violet "Vi" Todd (née Makepiece) was the wife of Jack Todd, mother of Dot Greenhalgh, Sally Hart and Jim Todd. Vi was the oldest child of Ivy Makepiece, a disturbed woman whose demons and the poor conditions of the era led her to often abuse her children. The Makepieces were the first tenants of 11 Coronation Street after it was built in 1902. Ivy's drinking often meant that the responsibility of looking after her younger siblings fell to Vi. She married Jack Todd as World War I broke out, with Jack leaving soon after their wedding. The war changed Jack, but he and Vi had one of the happier and longer-running marriages on the Street for the next few decades.