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The Watts were meant to have completely different names Den, Angie and Sharon were the first resident family at The Vic when the show started, but their original character names were Jack, Pearl and Tracey. It was later renamed The Market Cellar after his daughter Annie assumed control. The club first opened in under the name The Cobra Club. The viaduct arch it was built in had previously housed the Strokes Wine Bar , which opened in and was owned by The Firm's Joanne Francis.

The police had the wine bar closed down soon after due to illegal gambling. After the club is raided by the police in , the Cobra Club closes, but is reopened later in the year and renamed The Market Cellar.

The club was actually used to facilitate George's money laundering operations and illegal gambling. Later, George's daughter Annie took over the running of the club, starting a loan shark business from inside the club with Phil Mitchell and Conor Flaherty.

It was originally owned and managed by Steve Owen and Mel Owen. It was named after the Walford postcode, London E The opening day of e20 is 14 February , Valentine's Day, and Steve's obsessive ex-girlfriend turns up and starts taunting him and then begins knocking him around until she tries to strangle him with his tie.

In self-defence he hits her over the head with an ash tray, killing her. Matthew, who is a witness, is framed by Steve for Saskia's murder and sent to prison.

After release, Matthew takes revenge by tying him up in the club and threatening to set it on fire, but he is only trying to scare Steve and turn him into an emotional wreck. Steve marries Melanie Owen in , and she becomes a supposed owner of the club, though this was not correct as it was only in writing. Later, Dan Sullivan kidnaps Melanie as revenge on Steve for aiding playing apart in his imprisonment. After she is finally released from capture, she decides to torch the e20 to get back at for Steve for the lies he has told.

As a result, the club needs to be completely rebuilt. Unfortunately for Steve, while his insurance claim was valid, the insurance company use a minor technicality relating to an incident where he was fined for illegally importing duty-free wine from France in the s to invalidate his policy and avoid paying out, leaving him with no money to rebuild the club.

Steve sells off the e20 to his friend Beppe di Marco. Angie's Den was the third iteration of the nightclub on Turpin Road which was originally owned and managed by Sharon Mitchell and Dennis Rickman. Later, Dennis Rickman works there and helps run the club with Sharon. When Den resurfaces he manages the club and his feud with the Mitchells leads to both Sam and Billy being sacked. This feud later leads to Angie's Den being burnt down by Billy in January , without realising that Vicki Fowler is inside.

Billy rescues her, but after an explosion that rocks the club, it has to be closed down. Suspecting foul play, the insurance company refuse to pay out for the damage, which nearly leads to Sharon selling the remains of the club to Sam who had coerced her cousin Billy to torch it in the first place. Den comes home from a holiday with the necessary funds and the Watts family holds onto the club.

It is refurbished and Sharon reopens it. Kareena Ferreira and Lisa Fowler work there briefly as bar staff; Juley Smith also begins to work there, but he is sacked for selling drugs. Scarlet was the fourth iteration of the nightclub on Turpin Road which was originally owned by Johnny Allen.

Scarlet was merged with 2 Turpin Road, which gave the nightclub a larger and more open space. He merges the two together and creates a larger nightclub, which he names Scarlet after his eldest daughter, who died in an arson attack the previous year.

In , Johnny decides to leave Albert Square. Johnny's one-time fling, Amy takes over for a few months, but it proves unpopular for a young woman to be manager. Mike Swann also has a very brief spell as manager.

In April after Johnny is imprisoned for murder, his young daughter Ruby Allen is given the club. Jake Moon is given the role of manager by Johnny and Grant Mitchell runs the club with him for several months.

However, since creating arguably the most famous square in British TV history, Peter and Gina went on to become senior production designers themselves Peter scooped the Royal Television Design and Craft Award in Recently, several of her works were acquired by Keble College, Oxford, for its permanent collection.

And the connections made all those years ago remain strong. Gina's The Lay Of The Land was the perfect picture and it is fitting that they could celebrate their collaboration in the very studio where they learned so much of their craft. Her work can be viewed online at www. The best things to do in London. The must-read London articles. The coolest London events from our partners.

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