Larry Buck and his family inhabited 9 Coronation Street from 1910 to 1926. Parents Ned and Sarah and children Larry, Joe and Alice, lived in a one-room tenement in Inkerman Street before moving to Coronation Street. All of them worked at Hardcastle's Mill. Larry was a quiet but good-looking lad. His heart didn't lie with his work but he was responsible; during the 1911 factory strike, he went on a walking holiday in the Pennines instead of joining his neighbours, but he returned to work as soon as the strike was over as he knew the family needed his wages.