<P> Bet was born to parents Patrick and Mary Lynch . Her father left when she was six months old, and Bet received a strict Roman Catholic upbringing by her mother, but that did not stop her becoming Miss Weatherfield in 1955 . When she was sixteen, she met a man named Joe Mason at a party, who was twelve years older than her . After learning Bet was pregnant, Joe left and she gave birth to a baby boy called Martin but her mother insisted that the Downes family adopted him . </P> <P> Bet arrives in Coronation Street in 1966 when working at the PVC factory . She has an affair with her boss John Benjamin and gives Lucille Hewitt (Jennifer Moss) a black eye, because of her jealousy at Lucille's speed of welding . She leaves the area a few weeks later but returns to Coronation Street in 1970 when she bumps into Irma Barlow (Sandra Gough), remembering her from when she worked with her at the factory four years earlier . Later in the year, Bet becomes a junior barmaid in the Rovers Return Inn, appointed by Billy Walker (Ken Farrington). She has numerous relationships with many people, including well - known Street residents such as Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson) and Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs). In 1975, Bet receives news that her 19 - year - old son Martin (who she gave up for adoption when he was a baby) had died in a car crash in Northern Ireland, where he had been serving as a soldier . She also finds out that he tracked her down, but was disgusted by her overt sexual nature and left without telling her who he was . </P> <P> When Annie Walker (Doris Speed) retires in 1983 after 46 years as landlady of The Rovers Return, her son, Billy, takes over the license of The Rovers Return . He is involved in various dodgy dealings and screws up frequently . He is the landlord for less than a year; he gets in trouble with the brewery and the tenancy is purchased back by Newton & Ridley . The brewery decides to appoint a manager rather than sell the licence . Sarah Ridley appoints Bet manageress after receiving a petition from many of the Street's residents who nominate her for the role . Bet is flabbergasted, but ecstatic . She moves out of the corner shop flat into The Rovers in January 1985 . Bet is involved in a fire at The Rovers in 1986, but is saved by Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell). The place is gutted but eventually refurbished and she moves back in a few weeks later . When the tenancy of The Rovers is being sold by the brewery in 1987, Bet can't raise the money to buy it . Club owner Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough) offers her a loan but she can't pay him back so flees to Spain for a few weeks . Alec manages to track her down to bring her back, and then proposes to her . They later get married . The marriage goes better than expected, and Bet falls pregnant in 1988 at the age of 48 (more than 30 years after giving birth to Martin), only to lose the baby in an early miscarriage . </P> <P> In January 1990, Alec meets his daughter, Sandra Arden (Kathy Jameson), for the first time in 20 years and he meets Sandra's husband Tim and daughter Vicky (Helen Warburton). On Sandra's birthday, Bet overhears Sandra telling Tim she wants nothing to do with Alec . Bet breaks the news to Alec, but he refuses to believe it until Sandra tells him . Bet visits Sandra and talks to her, persuading to give Alec a chance and after thinking, Sandra agrees . In 1991, days after the death of Alec's former wife, Sandra and Tim are killed in a car crash and Vicky (now played by Chloe Newsome) stays with Bet and Alec, who later become her legal guardians . Alec gets a job on a cruise and wants to sell the tenancy of The Rovers back to the brewer but Bet doesn't want to leave her pub so Alec goes alone . Bet becomes manageress of The Rovers and continues to run the pub for the next five years alone . When the brewery decide to sell The Rovers again, Bet can't come up with the large sum they demand . She tries asking some of her neighbours, especially close friend Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox), and step - granddaughter Vicky to borrow some money; but both refuse . Vicky, however, does offer to buy Bet a house instead but Bet is upset and throws everyone out of the pub . In October 1995, she then leaves in the back of a taxi in her iconic leopard - skin outfit, not knowing where to go next . </P>

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