May Walters

First Appearance: Episode 719
Last Appearance: Episode 840

Key Storylines:
May Walters is an ex-Madam who Fiona worked for during the Second World War. They haven't seen each other for a very long time, but are reunited when Fiona becomes involved in a campaign to stop the mansion where the two women worked from being knocked down. Following their reunion, Fiona decides to move into the mansion, as she needs to find an alternative to the boarding house she bought with Irene Fisher, after they both lose most of their money in a disastrous investment in coffee futures. May is herself not particularly well-off, although she has a number of valuable heirlooms and gifts from former clients. She also runs a small sideline in speech therapy and teaching the art of speaking proper English, as well as providing singing lessons to Ginny Doyle!

May's most traumatic experience is being tied-up and then almost gassed when the mansion is invaded by Micky Pratt and Ned Turner, two criminals on the run who will do anything to avoid capture. Other than this, she is more concerned with living as fine a life as she can. When she learns that a former 'colleague' from her days on the game - Owen Brooke's mother, Connie Hogg, who May regards as the roughest of the rough - is writing an autobiography, May determines to tell her side of the story. She contacts a journalist, who is so impressed with what May has to say that a tour of England is arranged almost straight away and May soon flies out of Australia. While in England, she meets a wealthy man and marries him! She moves into his 36-room house and settles down to enjoy her new life.

Leanne Watson

First Appearance: Episode 470
Last Appearance: Episode 596

Key Storylines:
Beryl takes in 16-year-old Leanne in late-1984 when she has to leave the Children's Home that Beryl helps out at. Leanne tries to help Jeff O'Brien overcome his drinking problem, but her methods meet with failure. After taking a job dressing up in costumes to deliver humorous messages, Leanne meets some other girls and moves in with them - but not before inadvertently helping Patricia discover that Beryl is pregnant to David just before David is due to marry Patricia.

A few months later, Leanne turns up again at Beryl's after running into trouble with her housemates: a girl called Tracy Kingsford was daring her to steal from the parties she was working at, and she took a bracelet. However, feeling guilty after finding out how much it was worth, she sent it back to the owner. Tracy, however, had refused to believe that she hadn't still got it and had started hounding her for it. Beryl allows Leanne to move back in, but runs into her own problems with Tracy, who's determined to take revenge on her for helping the girl. Leanne then meets Tim Palmer and there's an immediate attraction. The two of them start spending time together, and Tim fights Tracy's mate, Simmo, when the two of them are ambushed. Leanne eventually decides that she can't put Beryl through any more trouble and she decides to run away. Tim, who's having problems of his own with David, goes with her. While they're on the run, Leanne loses her virginity to Tim, but that moment of happiness is shattered when Tim then develops food poisoning and has to be taken to hospital. Upon his release, he arranges to go and stay with Mike and Heather O'Brien in Brisbane and he tells Leanne that she's invited as well. Leanne, however, decides to take up the offer of a job from Tracy's father, Stuart Kingsford, and she bades Tim a sad farewell.

Arthur 'Spider' Webb

First Appearance: Episode 589
Last Appearance: Episode 731

Key Storylines:
Julie Webb's father follows his daughter to Dural after learning that she's marrying into a rich family. He fakes a fall down the stairs and a subsequent back injury so that he can stay at the house, and the Hamiltons arrange for him and Julie to move into the handyman's flat. Not wanting Julie to turn down the opportunity of the money that she'll gain by marrying into the Hamilton household, Spider does his best to stop her being independent, including causing a scene at the pub where she's working, so that she's given the sack. He forms a friendship with Charlie Bartlett, but this all comes to an end when Julie realises that things between her and Wayne aren't going to work and she calls off the wedding. She and Spider move away to Melbourne, where Spider pops in occasionally to see Charlie, at David's farm in Sunbury, and Beryl. He gets into scrapes when he tries to help Leigh Palmer evade the police after she admits kidnapping Beryl's baby son, Robert, and when he tries to help Brett Keegan with the gambling debts he runs up with a crook named Judge.

Spider had a second - older - daughter, Jessica, who married Rod Campbell and gave birth to a son, Barry, and a daughter, Jess. Jessica died when the children were still young, leaving Rod to bring them up alone. In late-1985, Spider introduces Rod to Beryl, and is delighted when the two of them start seeing each other. Unfortunately, Rod's jealousy, together with the interference of his housekeeper, Doris Hudson, leads to a stormy relationship, and when Rod is offered a job in Western Australia he decides to take it. Jess follows him a short time later and Spider a few weeks after that, when he realises that he's getting older and can't really cope by himself anymore.

Julie Webb

First Appearance: Episode 582
Last Appearance: Episode 610

Key Storylines:
While Wayne Hamilton is on the run after thinking he's going to be blamed for the death of his wife, Karen, he meets barmaid, Julie Webb, and they quickly fall in love and decide to get married. After learning that Liz Smith has confessed to killing Karen, Wayne returns to Sydney and Julie soon follows on behind - only to discover to her shock that Wayne has been shot by Caroline Morrell, who thought he was Gary Evans, an exact doppelgänger. After Wayne is released from hospital, he and Julie start making plans for their wedding, but tensions soon arise because Julie doesn't want to be dependent on Wayne's money, instead choosing to try and be self-sufficient by taking a job in a local pub.

Things take a downward turn when Julie's father, Arthur 'Spider' Webb, tracks her down at Dural; Julie has never got along with him because he was 50 when she was born and she's always thought of him as an old man. She tries to convince the Hamiltons not to let him stay at Dural, but he puts on an act of hurting his back and he and Julie end up moving into the handyman's flat. Julie is devastated when he then causes her to lose her job. She and Wayne continue to fight, and Julie is shocked by Wayne's jealousy when she develops a friendship with Neil Duffy, who's staying next door with Charlie. She sadly realises things aren't going to work, and she calls the wedding off and moves with her father to Melbourne.

Bert Wilkins

First Appearance: Episode 218
Last Appearance: Episode 252

Key Storylines:
Fiona hires Bert to train Rosie's Hope, the racehorse she buys on a whim when an old acquaintance needs to get his hands on some money. The two of them become close, but Bert's life is overshadowed by the fact that he's a recovering alcoholic - his son has never forgiven him for allowing a horse to drown when he was in too much of a stupor to help it. Fiona tries to help Bert become reconciled with his son and his family, but the attempt backfires and Bert returns to the booze, despite promising that he'd stay off it. He eventually decides that he can't put Fiona through any more trauma and he disappears, leaving a farewell message on Fiona's answerphone.