Jackie Rigby

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 Nuttal, 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.

By day, Jackie was a warehouse storeman at Elliston's Raincoat Factory. He always held his briefcase close as it contained black-market nylons and perfumes, which he sold for extra money. After losing his job at Elliston's, Jackie got drunk and fell into the canal but was rescued by Frank Barlow. Frank felt sorry for Jackie and managed to get him a job as an insurance agent but he never made any money as he drank away his earnings. 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.


 * Jackie first appeared in Daran Little and Bill Hill's "Weatherfield Life", published in 1992. Other information is derived from Little's follow-up book, "Around the Coronation Street Houses".