Rovers Return Inn Billy first appears in Coronation Street in January 1961, but takes over The Rovers Return in 1984 after his mother Annie retires and signs the pub over to him. It doesn't last long, though, and he leaves for good in 1984, after a series of run-ins with police due to the lock-ins held after hours. Arguably the most famous barmaid on "Coronation Street", Bet Lynch was in charge of The Rovers Return for a little over 10 years. In late 1984, the brewery, Newton & Ridley, unhappy with the way the pub was being run into the ground by Billy,
Clinch & Co Brewery to be interested in the tied estate and closed the brewery soon after. Clinch and Co went into voluntary liquidation in 1967, though the legal entity "Clinch and Co" may have survived in Courage's hands until 1977. The Brewery lay more or less dormant until the site was bought by Paddy Glenny in the 1980s who opened "Eagle Brewery" in the cellar of the original Clinchs Eagle Maltings. In 1990, Eagle was renamed "Wychwood Brewery", and was taken over in 2002 by Refresh UK, a subsidiary of Marston's. Wychwood is now a successful brewing business, which is still based around