Iris Rigby

Iris Rigby (neé Nuttall) was the wife of Jackie Rigby and the only daughter of Alf.

Iris, a kind, gentle girl, was killed in the Blitz in 1940, when the army detonated an unexploded bomb in their back garden - leaving Jackie a widower in his thirties. Her father Alf moved in with Jackie when the moved from the old house, 5 Crimea Street, and their new house, 9 Coronation Street.

Jackie and Alf did a moonlight flit in May 1950, leaving three weeks rent.