Ronnie Crapper and family were the first tenants of 9 Coronation Street after the house was built in 1902. Ronnie's father Albert and brother Jack worked at the Weatherfield Main pit but mother Pearl was worried about Ronnie's weak chest and ensured he didn't follow suit. Instead, Ronnie got a job as an apprentice at Bright's Pawn Shop on the corner of Rosamund Street and Canal Street and it was this which saved him from being buried alive along with his father and brother in the pit cave-in in 1906.