emily bishop was the landlady of the rovers return.
who is the landlady of the rovers return?
emily bishop
in october 2016, peter arrived back on the street, surprising ken and tracy. however, when ken becomes suspicious about his real intentions for returning, an almighty argument ensues between the pair, resulting in ken suffering a severe stroke. peter informs the doctors of the argument and worries that this may have contributed to ken's stroke, however he is assured that the stroke occurred due to ken's age. he is adamant for tracy not to find out, however she does so when the nurse informs the barlows of ken's progress, and so tracy orders peter to leave weatherfield. as he prepared to leave, peter bumped into his long-time friend steve mcdonald (simon gregson), who invites him to stay at the rovers return. in 2017, peter buys the rovers from steve and his mother liz (beverley callard), after steve is ordered to sell up as part of michelle's divorce settlement. peter makes his new girlfriend toyah battersby (georgia taylor) the landlady, with peter acting as pub landlord. in 2018, peter and toyah are delighted when they are informed that their surrogate has fallen pregnant with their baby, however toyah later decides not to tell peter when she learns that the surrogate has miscarried. instead, she and leanne's secretly pregnant half-sister eva price (catherine tyldesley) decide to pass her baby off as peter and toyah's, as eva decides she does not want the baby. after the baby is born and named after peter's deceased twin sister susan, however, toyah decides to reveal all to peter, who therefore breaks up with toyah. he sells the rovers to johnny (richard hawley) and jenny connor (sally ann matthews) and moves back in with ken.
peter barlow (coronation street)
jack (arthur leslie) and annie walker (doris speed) bought the tenancy and moved into the rovers return on 4 february 1937. during world war ii, landlord jack was away from the pub for some time on army duty, leaving annie to run the pub by herself. the pair was considered very different. jack, with a broad northern accent (the phrase "eeee annie" heard on many occasion), was no different from his customers, whilst annie was a snobbish, "well spoken" lady. despite this, the pair were inseparable until jack's untimely death in 1970 while the couple were on holiday. (this was due to the sudden death of arthur leslie off-screen.) considered by many to be the best landlady of them all, annie holds the reins at the rovers for 46 years. her sometimes vicious snobbishness often alienates her from her customers, but she runs the pub with class and stands for no nonsense. behind her mask of a hard landlady, annie is a very vulnerable person. in 1975, she is held up in her bedroom by two young thieves. after she refuses to reveal where she keeps her money, they flee, receiving a beating in the yard courtesy of ray langton (neville buswell) and len fairclough (peter adamson). though calm throughout, the ordeal causes annie to collapse later. the brewery hears rumours that she is becoming an absentee landlady, something which she had always feared. she does not like to feel detached from her duties, and is always free to speak to customers and develop friendships with her staff, in particular bet lynch (julie goodyear) and betty turpin (betty driver). she continues her tenancy until 1983 (on-screen), but in 1984 it is announced that annie has decided to retire as landlady to spend more time with her daughter, joan, and her family in derby. in agreeing to pay off her son billy walker's (ken farrington) debts, he agrees to take over the tenancy as landlord. sadly, billy does not fully enjoy the role, and in december 1984, the brewery buy the tenancy back from the walker family, ending over 47 and a half years of the walker name over the door of the rovers. in 2012, it is revealed that annie left the tenancy and role of landlady to betty in her will; however, betty is not interested, and the letter and will are only found after betty's death (and the tenancy had already been sold back to the brewery prior to annie's death, rendering the bequest moot).
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