[1] Daughter of widowed bus conductor Harry Hewitt (Ivan Beavis), Lucille spent several years in an orphanage in her youth, but occasionally visited her father.

When Harry married again in 1961, this time to barmaid Concepta Riley (Doreen Keogh), Lucille was able to return home but took an instant disliking to her stepmother.

In 1964, Harry and Concepta moved to Ireland alongside Christopher; however, Lucille refused to follow them, and ended up being fostered by local landlords Jack (Arthur Leslie) and Annie Walker (Doris Speed).

[citation needed] Both of Lucille's father figures died in the years that followed, with Harry being crushed to death in 1967 and Jack suffering a heart-attack in 1970.

Ultimately, Lucille is allowed to return permanently from the orphanage when her aunt, Alice Burgess (Avis Bunnage), agrees to move in to look after her niece while her father is away working.

Harry married barmaid Concepta Riley (Doreen Keogh) in 1961, and the pair had a baby boy Christopher Hewitt (Stephen Ward) on 6 August the following year.

Jennifer Moss made her debut as Lucille in the second dry run, alongside her onscreen father Harry Hewitt (Ivan Beavis).

[3] In her early years, Lucille was portrayed as an impressionable young schoolgirl who had a difficult relationship with her stepmother, Concepta Riley (Doreen Keogh).

She made 29 appearances in 1961, up to November of that year, when the Equity actors' strike began, leaving Moss unable to sign a new contract until industrial action ended the following April.

Moss successfully battled alcoholism in the 1980s, which was the reason underlying her being sacked from Coronation Street for bad behaviour by then-producer Susi Hush in 1974.