Esther Hayes was a resident of 5 Coronation Street from 1924 to 1962. The house had been in the Hayes family since 1910, but for her last ten years in Coronation Street, Esther lived there alone. Esther worked at Weatherfield Town Hall and never married. She left the Street to move into a luxury flat in Moor Lane, and in 1963 she left Weatherfield and moved to Glasgow.