Albert Battersby was a piano tuner who called into the Rovers Return Inn by appointment one day in May 1963. The regulars were all agog as they were awaiting the arrival of the much-discussed Arthur Forsyth-Jones, a gentleman-friend of Annie Walker's who she had met while on a holiday in Babbacombe in July 1962. Over the past year she had bored everybody to tears with tales of his charm and manners, including her husband Jack, though he often felt pangs of jealousy too.
A letter from Forsyth-Jones advising Annie that he would be in the area soon and hoped to visit, caused Jack to almost cancel a fishing trip to Scotland but Annie insisted he go. The residents were both aggrieved on his behalf and eager to see the man who Annie had spoken of so often. When a smartly-dressed stranger walked in, Annie was in the back and some of the regulars, namely Minnie Caldwell, Martha Longhurst, Len Fairclough and Albert Tatlock all but surrounded him. Somewhat unnerved, he doffed his hat to the ladies and asked the men if Mrs Walker was in. Len shouted for her and when she saw who it was, she invited him into the back after saying how lovely it was to see him. Martha was calling her a "brazen cat" and the others were commiserating with Jack's fortune when Annie briefly returned, knowing full well what they were thinking and putting them firmly in the right as to who the man really was.
- The character was played by Victor Tandy who in 1960 had auditioned for the part of Albert Tatlock and who had played him in the first of the programme's two dry runs. In this appearance, he acted alongside Jack Howarth who was given the role when the programme began proper.