Bertie Crapper

Bertie Crapper was the youngest son of Albert and Pearl Crapper. The Crappers were the first family to inhabit 9 Coronation Street after it was built in 1902. Bertie was born in 1907, five months after his father and brother Jack's deaths in a mine disaster Weatherfield Main Colliery.

Pearl continued to work after Bertie was born and carried him in a sling around her shoulder as she went about her charring duties at the Rover's Return. Bertie died from tuberculosis in 1910.


 * Bertie 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".