Wally ran the entrance office to the Slater's Hill Rubbish Tip. Annie Walker had had a run-in with binmen Eddie Yeats and Johnny Webb after they had disclosed from the contents of her own bins that the Rovers' soups were not homemade and that she used a hair colour and reported them to the cleansing department, telling them to send a different crew in future. As a result, all of the bin crews blacklisted the pub. The piles of rubbish started to collect in the back yard and Fred Gee was instructed to take them to the tip himself.