Stuart Morris

Stuart Morris was a mate of Jim McDonald's who drew up plans for 11 Coronation Street's extension in 1991. Stuart had been putting off the job for several weeks when he pulled up outside Jim's Bike Shop to ask his friend to fit a new exhaust on his motorbike. Stuart told Jim that he was too busy to measure up the McDonalds' yard until the following week but a gap suddenly opened in that evening's schedule when Jim intimated that he wouldn't carry out the bike repairs until the job was done.

Stuart returned to the Street later that day to look over No.11's yard. Surveying the foundations, he told Jim that they wouldn't hold an extension of the size that Jim had planned and advised him to go down three feet to be on the safe side. Their conversation was overheard by Jim's neighbour Vera Duckworth, who was alarmed by the mention of the extension covering the width of the yard and having two floors; Jim had led the Duckworths to believe that he was only extending his kitchen in order to quell any complaints. Once he had all the numbers he needed, Stuart left to draw up the plans which he told Jim would take a few days.