Emily Popplewell was the daughter of Harry and Clara Popplewell. The Popplewells were the first tenants of 7 Coronation Street in 1902.
During the war, Emily worked alongside her mother at Hardcastle's Mill as a loom operator before deciding to help the war effort by volunteering to serve in a field hospital in France. It was there that she fell in love with a wounded French soldier and the pair later married.
- Emily 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".