Maurice Jones

Maurice Jones was a property developer who bought up the south side of Coronation Street and built the new houses and shop units and 1989.

Jones owned pockets of land all over Weatherfield and had already bought the land behind Baldwin's Casuals and the Community Centre when he first approached Mike Baldwin about buying the factory in July 1989. Mike didn't think much of it until Dawn Prescott found out about his other investments, and realised he was buying up the Street and was counting on a sale, and thus that Mike could sell the factory for a huge profit. An agreement was reached and Jones bought the factory.

When Mike announced to his machinists that he was selling up, he let them believe that Jones was intending to run the factory and so they were understandably surprised when they arrived for work to find the factory gates locked. Jones told them the factory was closed but then faced a battle against the girls, who were advised by the Department of the Employment that Jones was responsible for their redundancy payments. Jones refused to pay up and gave Percy Sugden the job of looking after the empty unit until the bulldozers arrived.

The factory and Centre were demolished on schedule but before building work started on the new development, the girls stepped up their battle for compensation; Emily Bishop started a sit-in on the site, soon joined by the other girls. They were supported by Councillor Deirdre Barlow and the Weatherfield Recorder, despite Jones having agreed with Ken for the Recorder to cover Jones's re-development project. Jones realised he was beaten and agreed to pay the girls redundancy.

Jones managed the building work himself. In November, he arranged with Alec Gilroy a 5-a-side football match between the builders and the Rovers regulars. He and Alec each bet £50 on their team to win, but the builders lost.

The re-development scheme proved to be costlier than planned. In December, work was halted when the police excavated the site as they thought Alan Bradley, one of Jones's workers, might have buried Rita Fairclough there. No body was found but Jones sacked Alan. The following month, Jones had to pay compensation when Steve and Andy broke into the building site and drove a JCB onto the Street, smashing the Corner Shop window.

The new houses and shop units were completed in February 1990. No.6 was earmarked for Jones's daughter Steph, who moved into the house with her new husband Des Barnes. Rita Fairclough bought the shop unit on the corner of Viaduct Street and moved the Kabin from its Rosamund Street premises onto Coronation Street. No.4 was sold to Derek and Mavis Wilton, and No.8 to Gail and Martin Platt. Phil Jennings bought the factory unit and Mike Baldwin bought the garage unit. No.2 was the last to be sold; it was leased to charity Friends of Weatherfield Hospital in early 1991 before the unit, along with the flat above, was finally bought by Denise Osbourne and turned into a salon in December 1992.

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