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Albert Square is the fictional location of the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. It is ostensibly located in the equally fictional London borough of Walford in London's East End. The square's design was based on the real-life Fassett Square in Hackney, and was given the name Albert Square after the real-life history of Prince Albert and the then deprived East End. The public house, The Queen Victoria, was also given its name due to this. One of the key characteristics of the pub is the window twitching by any of the occupants throughout the years. They are often known to look out of the windows, giving a view of the whole Square. This is especially common in dramatic storylines. Central to the Square is the garden. The garden is home to Arthur Fowler's bench, which was placed there in memory of him. The bench is also known as the Bench of Tears, as it is often the place where characters will go and cry. The square is the centre of all of the everyday drama in all of Walford's residents' lives; most of the characters in ''EastEnders'' live on the square. Although a major place on the show, there are other places which are used in the show, like the market. ==Residences== The Queen Victoria public house, known to residents as the Queen Vic or simply 'The Vic', stands south of the square, where it joins with Bridge Street. The pub, which is number 46, is owned and run by Mick Carter (Danny Dyer), his wife Linda (Kellie Bright) and mother Shirley (Linda Henry). Mick and Linda live above the Vic with three of their children, Lee (Danny-Boy Hatchard), Nancy (Maddy Hill), and baby Ollie, along with Lee's girlfriend Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) and Mick's great-aunt, Babe Smith (Annette Badland). East of the pub is a building with 2 flats, the ground floor flat (47A) is home to Donna Yates. The top floor flat (47B) is currently unoccupied. West of these in the southwest corner leads off to a walkway through to Turpin Way, on which the Walford Community Centre and Playground are found. To the west of the Queen Vic, across the junction with Bridge Street, is the Beale house, 45 Albert Square, owned by Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) and currently occupied by him, his wife Jane Beale (Laurie Brett), and his son Bobby (Eliot Carrington). Next to that is 43 Albert Square, whose occupants are currently unknown. In the southwest corner of The Square is number 41, the Masood house, owned and occupied by Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra), along with his son Tamwar Masood (Himesh Patel) and daughter Shabnam Masood (Rakhee Thakrar).〔 Between No. 41 & No. 43 is Daisy Lane, a pathway connecting Albert Square to Victoria Square. On the west edge of The Square there are two houses (knocked through as one), 18-20 Albert Square, both owned by Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker) and Kim Fox-Hubbard (Tameka Empson). The house is occupied by Patrick, Kim, Kim's sister Denise Fox (Diane Parish), Kim's husband Vincent Hubbard (Richard Blackwood) and their daughter Pearl. It was previously Walford's B&B, 'Kim's Palace', but when Kim extended her time away Patrick closed the business, unable to cope with the running alone. North of the old B&B is the rear of Phil Mitchell's (Steve McFadden) house, 55 Victoria Road, where he lives with wife Sharon (Letitia Dean), his son Ben (Harry Reid), her son Dennis (Harry Hickles), Phil's adopted son Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick) and Ben's girlfriend Abi Branning (Lorna Fitzgerald). A row of five terraced houses line the north edge of Albert Square. The westernmost house, number 31, famously belonged to Pat Butcher (Pam St. Clement) and on her death was passed on to her daughter-in-law Carol Jackson (Lindsey Coulson). It is currently occupied by her daughter Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) and granddaughter Rebecca Fowler (Jasmine Armfield), along with Sonia's partner Tina Carter (Luisa Bradshaw-White). The property next door is split into two flats. Number 27 has passed hands a number of times, having belonged to Phil, Tanya Branning (Jo Joyner) and Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks), and currently belongs to Phil's cousin Ronnie (Samantha Womack), who lives there with her infant son Matthew. Number 25, a council house, has been the home of Dot Cotton (also Branning, played by June Brown) for over twenty years. She currently lives there with her lodger and friend Fatboy. The easternmost property in the terrace, number 23, was the home of Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) and his family until it was destroyed in September 2014 by a huge fire.〔 On the northeast edge of Albert Square is Deals on Wheels, a car lot owned by Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), former owners include Max Branning (Jake Wood), Archie Mitchell (Larry Lamb), Pat Butcher (Pam St. Clement), David Wicks (Michael French) and probably most famously Frank Butcher (Mike Reid). South of that is another terrace of three elevated properties. The northernmost house, number 5 is currently owned and occupied by Max Branning (Jake Wood). A road leaves to the north at the northeast edge of the square, passing by the car lot. The middle house (3 Albert Square) is currently a care home. Most southerly of this terrace is the old doctor's surgery, which has seen GP tenants including Anthony Trueman (Nicholas Bailey), May Wright (Amanda Drew) and Yusef Khan (Ace Bhatti). There are 2 flats above. The middle flat (1B) is currently unoccupied. The top floor flat (1A) was rented by Cora Cross 〔 until she supposedly left to visit her daughter Tanya and subsequently became homeless following the death of her fiancé Stan Carter (Timothy West) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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