Maggie Redman Margaret " Maggie " Redman ( née Dunlop ) was the owner of Maggie ' s Flowers and mother of Mark Redman . Maggie first met Mike Baldwin at Marion Willis and Eddie Yeats ' s engagement party in May 1982 . Marion was Maggie ' s assistant at the flower shop . Maggie and Mike hit it off right away ; Mike thought Maggie was stylish and attractive , and Maggie enjoyed Mike ' s Cockney charm . She also proved to be no fool - she did some checking on Mike before agreeing to go out with him - and strong enough to stop him turning to drink to deal with his grief following the death of his dad Frankie . Though they hadn ' t been seeing each other long , Mike invited Maggie to move in with him when she fell out with her flatmate Kathy , and she accepted . A short time later , Maggie found out she was pregnant . Mike ' s joyous reaction to the news was a contrast to Maggie ' s ; she didn ' t want a baby and wasn ' t sure she wanted to be tied to Mike . Mike proposed but Maggie refused and left him . While pregnant , Maggie married Harry Redman , who had loaned her £3 , 000 to buy shop premises in Station Road after Mike refused . Her son Mark was born the following spring and Maggie decided to raise him as Harry ' s son . While she now had the family she wanted , Maggie couldn ' t cut Mike out of her life completely and he still showed up occasionally , like a ghost from the past . In October 1983 , he met Mark for the first time when he and Maggie were guests at Marion and Eddie ' s wedding . Maggie offered to let Mike hold Mark but he couldn ' t bring himself to . In February 1984 , Mike saw Maggie with Mark in the street and decided he wanted Mark in his life . Maggie was resolute , and refused to let Mike intimidate her into letting him see Mark , even threatening to call the police . Maggie and Mike looked set to take their battle to court but eventually made a deal for Mike to stay out of Mark ' s life in exchange for an endowment policy Mark would get when he turned eighteen . Surprisingly , Mike respected this agreement , and their next encounter was purely by chance ; Maggie agreed to let Mark model children ' s clothes for Hopscotch , until she realised it was an outlet of Mike ' s factory Baldwin ' s Casuals and was run by his wife Susan . Susan went to Maggie and convinced her that this wasn ' t a plot by Mike to get close to Mark . When Mike married Jackie Ingram in 1991 , Jackie ordered flowers from Maggie for the wedding , not knowing of her connection to Mike . Maggie let Mike see Mark but kept his true identity a secret . Mark finally learned the truth in January 1993 . Now widowed , Maggie became close to Ken Barlow , who as Mark ' s teacher , had agreed to keep an eye on Mark in view of Harry ' s recent passing . They saw each other again when Ken saw Maggie teaching an evening flower arranging class and they agreed to a date . They struck a chord , as Ken was respectful of Maggie ' s loss and agreed to take things slowly but managed to get her to enjoy herself for the first time since Harry ' s death . He even won Mark ' s approval , despite Mark ' s initial embarrassment at his teacher dating his mum . Ken had no idea that Maggie was an old flame of Mike ' s until Tracy told him . Deirdre told Tracy when she recognised Maggie when Tracy got a job at Maggie ' s shop . Ken felt betrayed as he hated Mike but soon realised that Maggie wasn ' t to blame and agreed to put the issue aside . On Christmas Day 1992 , Mike paid Maggie a surprise visit to give Mark a present , having been reminded of him after seeing him in Jim ' s Cafe . Ken saw Mike off before he could get to Mark , but the presence of Ken in the Redman household only spurred Mike on in his determination to see his son . He appeared at Maggie ' s door again the next day and warned Maggie that Ken was only seeing her to get at him ; Maggie slapped him . Maggie worried that Mike would introduce himself to Mark but it was Tracy who later told Mark the truth about his paternity . Mark then went to Maggie for an explanation but she had no choice but t confirm what she ' d told him and tell him about her history with Mike . Tracy explained to Maggie that Mark had a right to know the truth , but a furious Maggie unforgivingly told Tracy that she then also had a right to know that Deirdre and Mike once had an affair . They later apologised to each other and Tracy kept her job at the shop . Maggie tried to get Mark to forget about Mike but Mark was curious and Maggie realised it would now hurt him more to stop them having a relationship . She let Mike see Mark once a week , insisting on calling the shots on when they saw each other , but Mike ' s money proved hard to compete with ; in March 1993 , Mike told Mark he could go to Euro Disney , even though Ken was planning a trip to Brittany for the family . Mark got bored with Ken and went to stay with Mike . Maggie was worried but after a heart - to - heart with Alma , she accepted that Mike wasn ' t trying to take Mark from her , but that he just wanted to see his son . Ken tried to convince Maggie that this was wrong and that she should be firmer with Mike , however , tired of Ken and Mike scoring points off each other , Maggie finished with Ken . When the school year came to an end , Mike told Maggie that Mark should be at a better school . Maggie resisted his idea to send Mark away to a boarding school , but relented at his suggestion of Oakhill Private School . Maggie crossed paths with Ken again in October , when he asked her about Tracy ' s relationship with van driver Craig Lee . Maggie refused to get involved . In August 1994 , Maggie announced that she was marrying Gerry Woodward and moving to Felixstowe , leaving Mike ' s life for the last time .