Editing EastEnders (section)

== Setting ==
[[File:The Queen Vic.jpg|right|thumb|The Queen Victoria Public House (as it looked from November 1992 to September 2010) is the main focal point of Albert Square (''pictured'').|alt=refer to caption]]
The central focus of ''EastEnders'' is the fictional [[Victorian era|Victorian]] square [[Albert Square]] in the fictional [[London Borough of Walford]]. In the show's narrative, Albert Square is a 19th-century street, named after [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] (1819–1861), the husband of [[Queen Victoria]] (1819–1901, reigned 1837–1901). Thus, central to Albert Square is The Queen Victoria [[pub]] (also known as The Queen Vic or The Vic).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/haveyoursay/yourquestions/yourq_content/yourq_queen_vic.shtml |title=What's the history of the Queen Vic? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061220221434/http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/haveyoursay/yourquestions/yourq_content/yourq_queen_vic.shtml |archive-date=20 December 2006|publisher=BBC}}</ref> The show's producers based the square's design on Fassett Square in [[Dalston]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hackney.gov.uk/xp-factsandfigures-placesfaces.htm|title=Interesting Places and Famous Faces|publisher=Hackney Borough Council|access-date=13 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201727/http://www.hackney.gov.uk/xp-factsandfigures-placesfaces.htm#.WMSKuNKLSpo|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> There is also a market close to Fassett Square at [[Ridley Road]]. The postcode for the area, [[London E8|E8]], was one of the working titles for the series.<ref name="20years p15" /> The name ''Walford'' is both a street in Dalston where Tony Holland lived and a [[Blend word|blend]] of [[Walthamstow]] and Stratford—the areas of Greater London where the creators were born.<ref name="20years p15" /><ref name="Street Names">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/haveyoursay/yourquestions/yourq_content/yourq_street_names.shtml |title= How was the name Walford chosen?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405114814/http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/haveyoursay/yourquestions/yourq_content/yourq_street_names.shtml |archive-date=5 April 2007 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> Other parts of the square and set interiors are based on other locations. The railway bridge is based upon one near [[BBC Television Centre]] which carries the Hammersmith & City line over Wood Lane W12, and the Queen Vic on the former College Park Hotel pub in Willesden at the end of Scrubs Lane at the junction with Harrow Road NW10 just a couple of miles from BBC Television Centre.<ref name="The Set Of EastEnders">{{cite web |last=Venables |first=Ben |title=The Story Behind The Set Of EastEnders|url=http://londonist.com/2015/01/exclusive-the-story-behind-the-sets-of-eastenders|publisher=Londonist|access-date=22 December 2016|date=13 January 2015}}</ref>

The current residents of the Queen Victoria Public House are landladies [[Elaine Peacock]] ([[Harriet Thorpe]]), [[Linda Carter]] ([[Kellie Bright]]), Linda's children [[Johnny Carter (EastEnders)|Johnny]] ([[Charlie Suff]]), [[Ollie Carter|Ollie]] (Harry Farr) and [[Annie Carter|Annie]] as well as Elaine's husband [[George Knight (EastEnders)|George]] ([[Colin Salmon]]) and his  daughter [[Anna Knight|Anna]] ([[Molly Rainford]]). 

Walford East is a fictional [[London Underground]] station for Walford, and a tube map that was first seen on air in 1996 showed Walford East between [[Bow Road tube station|Bow Road]] and [[West Ham tube station|West Ham]], in the actual location of [[Bromley-by-Bow tube station|Bromley-by-Bow]] on the [[District line|District]] and [[Hammersmith & City]] lines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://underground-history.co.uk/walford.php |title=Underground EastEnders|publisher=Underground History|access-date=4 November 2009}}</ref>

Walford has the [[Postcodes in the United Kingdom|postal district]] of E20. It was named as if Walford were part of the actual [[E postcode area]] which covers much of east London,<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> the ''E'' standing for ''Eastern''.<ref name=inner>HMSO, ''The Inner London Letter Post'', (1980)</ref> E20 was entirely fictional when it was created, as London East postal districts stopped at E18 at the time. The show's creators opted for E20 instead of E19 as it was thought to sound better.<ref name="Street Names" />

In March 2011, [[Royal Mail]] allocated the E20 postal district to the [[Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park|2012 Olympic Park]].<ref name="bbcpostcode">{{cite news|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12789694|title=Olympic Park to share EastEnders' Walford E20 postcode|access-date=19 March 2011|date=19 March 2011}}</ref> In September 2011, the postcode for Albert Square was revealed in an episode as E20 6PQ.