Bill Webster William Geoffrey " Bill " Webster is the father of Kevin , Debbie and Carl . Kevin and Debbie were children from his first marriage , to Alison , who died from cancer in 1980 . Bill was married two more times - to Elaine Prior in 1985 , and to Maureen Elliott in 1998 . He met Elaine shortly after he first moved to Coronation Street in 1984 and after getting married , the couple moved to Southampton , and later Germany , where their son Carl was born . Bill returned to Weatherfield in 1995 and stayed until leaving for Germany with Maureen , ten days after she married Fred Elliott , as she realised it was Bill she really loved . He returned again in 2006 and , after divorcing Maureen , had a relationship with Audrey Roberts before becoming engaged to Pam Hobsworth , whom he also lives with . Until retiring in 2010 , Bill worked as a builder , initially for the Council , whereas later he was self - employed . He is an old - fashioned sort of bloke : a family man who looks after his lot and who likes nothing more than a good pint . Biography . 1942 - 1986 . Bill was born on 2nd November 1942 to Jim and Helen Webster . He married Alison Cartwright in 1964 and they had two children , Kevin and Debbie . Tragically , Alison later passed away in 1980 from breast cancer and left Bill to raised his kids on his own . Bill was a builder and until being made redundant in 1984 he worked for the Council , doing repair jobs on Council houses . He then set up on his own and in February was hired by Brian Tilsley to fix a leaky roof at Tilsley ' s Garage , where Kevin was a hired hand . Rita Fairclough agreed to rent him the Builder ' s Yard but after finding out he was turning down work due to not being able to afford the materials needed , Rita also loaned him £1 , 000 . His first big job was to repair the roof on Mawdsley Street Chapel , but when the lead went missing while he was on the job , Mr Barker from the chapel committee fired him - the police had warned Emily Bishop that Bill had lost his job with the Council because of stealing - but he was re - hired when the real thieves were caught . When Elsie Tanner was looking to sell No . 11 , Bill expressed an interest but tried to get Linda Cheveski to lower the asking price to £10 , 000 . He was only interested in the house but Linda hoped he would make a pass at her . She refused to pass on Bill ' s offer to Elsie so he went to the estate agent instead , who made Linda move out , and he bought the house for £11 , 500 . With his business now booming , he repair Rita ' s loan and the Websters moved into No . 11 . Later in the year , Bill met Elaine Prior , a hairdresser who was Percy Sugden ' s niece . They started dating and soon fell in love and decided to get married . Elaine had her eye on a salon which she wanted to buy in Southampton , and Bill decided to uproot the family again and set up his business down south . Kevin was upset with the idea that Elaine was breaking up the family , and decided not to move with them or go to the Register Office wedding , but he turned up at the service just in time and waved them off . In 1986 , Elaine fell pregnant and a son , Carl , was born in Germany where the Websters were living by that time . Kevin visited them there just before marrying Sally but otherwise Bill and Kevin were estranged until 1995 . 1994 - 1998 . In 1994 , Elaine left Bill for a younger man , a foreman who worked above Bill . She took Carl with her , leaving Bill alone and annoyed . He thumped the man and got the sack , and with nothing to stay for in Germany he decided to move back to England ( although according to Elaine in a letter to Percy , Bill neglected her and drank all the time ) . Bill returned to Weatherfield in July 1995 and met up with Kevin again . Kevin was glad to see him and let him sleep on No . 13 ' s sofa until he found somewhere of his own . Bill felt guilty about never visiting and was nervous about meeting Sally and the girls for the first time - he decided to make a good impression by cooking dinner for the family but accidentally set fire to the kitchen . Fortunately Sally didn ' t hold this against him - he promised to put a new kitchen in for free . Bill found work as a potman at the Rovers after Jack Duckworth quit , and he also moved into the pub , but after just a few weeks the Duckworths bought the Rovers and Bill lost his job . He moved into one of Mike Baldwin ' s Crimea Street flats and decided to set up as a builder again , persuading Jim McDonald to go into partnership with him . They bought a battered van for transport and set about building their empire . Trouble arose when Bill got a tax bill for £1 , 400 plus 11 years interest . Kevin and Sally loaned Bill using money which was a gift from Rita , who had arranged a date with Bill but who pulled out in anger , thinking Bill was a waster , but Bill kept to his word and paid the money back in instalments . In March 1996 , Bill put up a shelf in the Corner Shop and became friendly with Maureen Holdsworth . Maureen had been put upon by Reg to keep the shop going whilst he worked in Lowestoft . When Reg ran off with Firman ' s wages clerk Yvonne Bannister and started divorce proceedings , Bill gave Maureen advice on stopping Reg from selling their assets underhandedly . It took them a while to admit their feelings to each other - Maureen met Simon through a lonely hearts but when he stood her up on their second date , Bill comforted her and they kissed . Even Maud Grimes approved ( she ' d hated Reg ) ; when she came home early only to realise Bill and Maureen were planning to spend the night together for the first time , she left quickly , hoping not to spoil their plans , but they ' d seen her and their night of passion was postponed . With their romance blossoming , Bill decided to take Maureen to Gran Canaria for Christmas , but cancelled when he found out Elaine was bringing Carl to Bristol and he decided to spend Christmas with his son instead . Bill felt guilty about letting Maureen down but was astonished when on his return home Maureen confessed she ' d slept with Curly Watts . He agreed for the sake of their relationship to forget about it and forgive Maureen . In 1997 , Bill moved into the shop flat . He and Maureen were getting bored with each other and struggled to keep their relationship exciting . Bill surprised Maureen with a day in Blackpool to make up for an earlier argument , but when he returned he found Curly locked in the shop storeroom , where he ' d been with Maureen when Bill showed up and whisked her away . A jealous Bill accused her of using the shop as a love nest and punched Curly in the face , and a horrified - and on this occasion innocent - Maureen finished with him for good . Bill and Maureen still cared about each other but on the rebound Maureen started seeing Fred Elliott , who proposed to her after a short time together . Bill turned his attentions to work , and agreed to let Steve McDonald invest in the business so they could afford bigger jobs . On marrying Maureen , Fred told Bill he wanted him out of the shop flat , and a disillusioned Bill made the decision to move back to Germany . He broke the news to Maureen and , surprised when she told him she shouldn ' t have married Fred , Bill asked her to go with him and at the last minute she did , leaving Fred after ten days of marriage . Bill and Maureen married in 1998 once Maureen ' s divorce came through . 1999 - 2009 . Kevin stayed with Bill in Germany when Kevin had a breakdown in 1999 . In 2006 , Bill treated the Websters to a holiday in Paris for their 20th wedding anniversary , bringing Rosie and Sophie along . Bill decided to spend some time in Weatherfield and started seeing Audrey Roberts , with the understanding that he was separated from Maureen ( which he wasn ' t ) . He agreed to spend Christmas with the Platts , fobbing Maureen off by saying he couldn ' t get a flight back . The truth came out when Maureen showed up at the Platts ' during Christmas dinner and David Platt told her about Audrey and Bill ' s affair . Bill thumped David and went after Maureen to try and patch things up , but she threw him out and in the New Year he came back to Weatherfield permanently . Though he ' d lied to her , Audrey let him move in with her . After the death of Charlie Stubbs , Bill bought the Builder ' s Yard with a £10 , 000 investment from Audrey , keeping on Jason Grimshaw as a labourer . Audrey found Bill caring but not always supportive ; when the couple set off with Janice Battersby and Roger Stiles on a booze cruise in France in August 2008 , Audrey didn ' t have a good time but Bill was mostly oblivious to this . During an argument in the car , Audrey crashed it and hurt her arm . She decided she and Bill weren ' t suited to each other and finished with him . After a few nights sleeping on Kevin ' s sofa , Bill moved into the flat adjacent to the yard . The following March , Audrey asked Bill to return her £10 , 000 investment and he did , even though it meant downsizing the business and cutting Jason ' s hours . 2009 - 2014 . In June 2009 , Bill went to a single ' s night in a hotel bar and ran into Pam Hobsworth . They arranged a double - date with Vanessa and Gilbert under the guises of being an army veteran ( Bill ) and a concert pianist ( Pam ) and they both had a great time . Bill wanted to go out with Pam himself but wasn ' t sure how she felt ; when he responded to a personal ad and agreed to a date with a woman but cancelled the date to go out with Pam instead , he didn ' t realise that the ad was actually Pam ' s . From that point they started seeing each other properly . By the following year , the business was in trouble financially and the situation wasn ' t helped by Owen Armstrong setting up in the area and stealing a refitting job at Underworld from Bill . Jason left the yard to work for Owen , and with no other work Bill turned to Owen for a job as a labourer . Owen took him on but they didn ' t get on and when Bill accidentally pushed a bucket of cement over Izzy ( although she wasn ' t hurt ) , Owen went mad . Bill realised there was no future in working for Owen and decided to sell the yard to Owen and retire . Bill moved in with Pam and from then on he didn ' t often visit the Street . He and Pam returned on the night of the tram crash to the news of Molly Dobbs ' s death ; the previous year , Bill and Pam had found out about Kevin and Molly ' s affair but the truth hadn ' t gone any further until Molly told Sally seconds before her death . Bill backed out of going to the funeral as he couldn ' t bear to be around Kevin , and didn ' t visit while Kevin coped with the ensuing marriage break - up between him and Sally . Bill kept in touch despite not visiting much . In 2011 , he and Pam went travelling and in September they got engaged and returned to the Street to spread the news but while time had healed emotional wounds between Bill and Kevin , Pam was less forgiving and the stress of their arguments caused Bill to have a minor heart attack . He recovered in hospital and Kevin and Pam agreed to stop arguing . He also went to Sophie ' s wedding to Sian Powers , even though it didn ' t go ahead . By 2013 Bill was back in Germany . In April he suffered a heart attack and the news reached Kevin , who then left Weatherfield for Germany with Jack to fly over and tend to Bill . Sally informed Tyrone of the situation and convinced him to come back to work at the garage . Bill made progress in March 2014 , which allowed Kevin to return with Jack . However a month later Bill had broken his leg when suffering a fall , and Kevin rushed back to Germany once again to tend to him . Kevin returned to Weatherfield in September of that year . Personality . Bill is a staunch family man . Much like Kevin , he doesn ' t miss what he never had and the routine of work , pub and family time doesn ' t leave him wanting . He is led by his heart but isn ' t one for grand gestures ; Maureen thought him quite homely . His weaknesses are a short temper ( as evidenced by him punching Curly Watts and David Platt in moments of anger ) and a tendency to gloss over his mistakes . For the most part , he is very like Kevin but older and wiser . Relationships . Family . The Websters were a close - knit family when they moved into No . 11 in 1984 . Bill insisted that they eat dinner at the table together every day . He wasn ' t strict but could be pushy ; he tried to stop Debbie from leaving school without any qualifications but when she made him feel guilty for heaping too many responsibilities on her at home , he agreed to let her leave if she got a job . His protective side came out when Debbie went out with Dazz Isherwood , an older lad who took her out on his motorbike , which Bill was against incase as she might get hurt . Bill forbade them from seeing each other but this didn ' t stop them . He was still there Debbie when Dazz dumped her for another girl . Bill and Kevin were close too . When Kevin introduced Bill to Brian Tilsley , Bill jokingly warned Brian that Kevin would bore his socks off by talking non - stop about football and car racing . They usually got along but he took a dim view of Kevin ' s affair with Natalie Horrocks when he realised Kevin was playing away while Sally was away nursing her mother . Kevin tried to bluff Bill off his scent but Bill could see through the charade and summoned Sally home , leading to her finding out about Kevin and Natalie . Before returning to Germany in 1997 , he called Natalie a scheming cow for breaking up a family . The scenario was repeated in 2009 when Kevin confessed that he was having an affair with Molly Dobbs but that Sally had just revealed she had breast cancer . Sally ' s revelation and Bill ' s talking - to woke Kevin up to the fact that he should stand by his wife . Friends . Bill ' s friends in the Street were his business partner Jim McDonald and employee Jason Grimshaw . In 1996 , Jim was going through a break - up with Liz and moved in with Bill as a condition of his bail when he broke into No . 11 to get to Liz . Bill was patient with Jim as he was a mate but he put his foot down with Jim when he expected Bill to give Steve a job with them , no questions asked . Bill and Jason had a good working relationship . When Bill retired , he gave Jason his tool box . Quotes . " How do ? " ( First line , to Brian Tilsley ) " You alright son ? " ( Final line , to Kevin )