After first appearing in January 1990, Vicky visits Coronation Street when her parents, Tim and Sandra Arden, arrange for Alec and Bet to collect her from the train station when she arrives from boarding school.
Vicky goes to a private boarding school and owns a horse called Saracen, so holidays in a back street pub are not an attractive option.
Vicky's relationship with Bet sours in October 1995 when she refuses to provide her with the funds to buy The Rovers Return when it is put up for sale.
Their relationship struggles, thanks to Steve spending Vicky's money, and the final straw comes when he is arrested on Christmas Day 1995 for buying stolen whisky.
Alec returns to the streets again to support his granddaughter and makes it clear that he holds Steve completely responsible for the situation.
Vicky has blossomed into a mature young woman, a far cry from the spoilt, impressionable teen that came to the Rovers many years before.
In November 1999, Steve and his friend, Vikram Desai (Chris Bisson), are heading to Calais to buy cigarettes and alcohol.
Alec decides to contact his daughter to make up for the last twenty years and gets Sandra's address from his ex-wife Joyce.
Before the Gilroys set off for the train station, a Police Sergeant arrives to tell Alec that Sandra and Tim have both died in a car crash.
Ingram died on 17 August 1990 and his widow, Jackie (Shirin Taylor) subsequently married Mike the following year.
Johnny "JJ" Johnson was one of Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson)'s army friends from when they were in the Royal Engineers together.
Steph and her husband Des Barnes (Philip Middlemiss) arrived in Coronation Street shortly after getting married, they moved into one of the newly built houses.
As a wedding present, Steph's father and builder of the houses Maurice Jones (Alan Moore) sold the newly built 6 Coronation Street to the couple at cost price.
To throw Simon off the scent, Steph turned up at Des's door, asking if she could stay in the spare room for a few nights.
Staying with Des made sense, as Simon knew that Steph would never reconcile with him so she could use it as a refuge until the dust settled.
However, her arrival sent out the wrong message to Des, who was eager for a reconciliation and let his current girlfriend Raquel Wolstenhulme (Sarah Lancashire) walk out on him after he sided with Steph against her in an argument.
She moved to London from Pakistan when she was young and her along with her sister Joanne Khan (Tania Rodrigues) were the first of their family to be raised in the UK.
7 after they left their halls and Jenny's foster mother Rita Fairclough (Barbara Knox) was moving into 10a Coronation Street, which was the apartment above the new premises for her shop The Kabin.
Eddie, not wanting to lose custody of Jamie, decided to marry Marie so he had rights, but they ended up splitting again by November 1990 as he was serving a prison sentence.
Nigel Chadwick was a paperboy for The Kabin in 1990, but was forced to give it up by his father due to a burglary at Percy Sugden (Bill Waddington)'s house, which made him believe that he was seen as a suspect.
Unlike his wife, who henpecked him a lot, he was more amiable towards Kimberley's fiancé, Curly Watts (Kevin Kennedy).
She then appeared later in the year when she tried to get Phil Jennings' company PJ Leisure to sponsor the school football team.
She recruited Derek Wilton (Peter Baldwin) as the school caretaker in December 1992, but sacked him in 1994 after falling asleep on the job.
Jacqueline Rachel "Jackie" Ingram (also Baldwin), played by Shirin Taylor, made her first screen appearance on 8 August 1990 and departed on 24 July 1991, later returning for two episodes on 13 April and 15 June 1992.
Angela "Angie" Freeman moved into 7 Coronation Street to share with Jenny Bradley, into the room vacated by Flick and Joanne Khan.
In March 1991, Curly Watts moved in and they quickly became very close – but more as brother and sister than lovers, until one night when they had too much red wine and ended up in bed together.
Angie returned to Weatherfield, and rented Des Barnes' house while he was on his canal barge, with the intention of setting up her own business.
In 1991, he bought Unit 14 Coronation Street off Maurice Jones and began PJ Promotions, which Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride) ran as an equal partner.
[1][2] Rosie's storylines have included the effect that parental separation has upon a child, leading to a spell as a school bully, her rivalry with younger sister Sophie, being kidnapped by John Stape (Graeme Hawley), and her modelling ambitions.
David's storylines have included his sibling rivalry with half sister Sarah, his teenage rebellion, his relationship with Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan), his marriage to Kylie Turner (Paula Lane), fatherhood, and his rivalry with Kylie's ex-partner and Max's dad Callum Logan (Sean Ward).