Dorothea "Dot" Edith Greenhalgh (née Todd) was Elsie Tanner's best friend in the 1960s. She grew up in Coronation Street, with her family occupying 9 Coronation Street from 1926 to 1946. Dot's parents were Jack and Vi Todd, who married as fighting began marking the beginning of the Great War. Vi's mother, Ivy Makepiece, had been abusive and bitter towards her children, but Vi did not want to make the same mistake with her three kids - Dot and her older siblings Jim and Sally - although she still kept a firm hand. Dot and Sally loved their mother and relied on her to sort out problems, such as when Dot fell in love with a Frenchman named Jean, blissfully unaware that he had also taken up a sexual relationship with Sally. When the truth came out, an unaware Jean dropped by to see Dot, and Vi