The Small Boy had his right hand bandaged by Doctor Matthews in a Lake District hospital in 1969. Following the hospitalisation of most of the Street's residents after a coach crash, Ena Sharples was summoned to the Casualty department to discuss Minnie Caldwell's condition and found the Doctor treating the boy. As he finished the bandage, the Doctor told the boy that he looked like Captain Hook with his dressings on and then sent him away with a nurse.