Sarah Buck was a resident of 9 Coronation Street between 1910 and 1919.
Sarah moved into No.9 in July 1910 alongside her husband Ned and children Larry, Joe and Alice. Previously they had lived in a one-room tenement in Inkerman Street but secured the position on Coronation Street due to the entire family working at Hardcastle's Mill. Sarah was a midwife who carried out abortions while her husband was an embalmer and cheap coffin maker, making them great assets to their neighbours.
The house became overcrowded when Joe married Kelly Smith in March 1913 and the pair welcomed their son Jim six months later. However, it wasn't to last when both Larry and Joe left to serve in the war and Kelly moved back in with her mother on Crimea Street with Jim. Tensions became strained between the remaining Bucks when Ned disowned Alice after she seduced Vic Piggott from No.13 in 1915 and fell pregnant with his child. Sarah had attempted to conceal the pregnancy from her husband by offering to carry out an abortion but headstrong Alice refused. She gave birth to her son Ben later that year and, despite Sarah's pleas, Ned threw her and the baby out on the street and Sarah never saw her daughter again.
Despite both of her sons surviving the war, Sarah started to rely on drink to cope with the loss of her daughter. Further stresses included Larry's decision to emigrate to Canada and Joe taking up boxing in the street which left him with permanent brain damage, both of which contributed to Sarah's worsening condition and she ended up dying from alcohol poisoning in 1919.
- Sarah 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".