Ted Gibson was a tenant of 9 Coronation Street from 1950 to 1960. A former GPO worker, Ted worked at Dave Smith's betting shop in Rosamund Street as a clerk. In 1950, then 53, Ted met Amy Foster, a shop assistant at Miami Modes; they fell in love instantly and married that same year.
Ten years after moving into No.9, the Gibsons won £20,000 on a coupon and left for a world cruise in November 1960 before settling in Dorset.
- The Gibsons were fleetingly mentioned by Elsie Tanner in Episode 21 (22nd February 1961) as having moved out of No.9 three months before but no further details were given. Ted's first name and history was given 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".