EastEnders trouble. Co-creator Tony Holland was from a large East End family, and such families have typified "EastEnders". The first central family was the combination of the Fowler family, consisting of Pauline Fowler, her husband Arthur, and teenage children Mark and Michelle. Pauline's family, the Beales, consisted of Pauline's twin brother Pete Beale, his wife Kathy and their teenage son Ian. Pauline and Pete's domineering mother Lou Beale lived with Pauline and her family. Holland drew on the names of his own family for the characters. The Watts and Mitchell families have been central to many notable "EastEnders" storylines, the show
Arthur Fowler in Albert Square; the dedication is entitled "Arthur Fowler: He loved this place". In 2007, after Pauline's death, Dot Cotton (June Brown) buries her ashes at Arthur's grave. In 2015, Martin names his son with Stacey Fowler after his father, though it emerges that he is actually the son of Kush Kazemi. Arthur Fowler was one of the original twenty-three characters invented by the creators of "EastEnders", Tony Holland and Julia Smith. Arthur was a member of the first family of "EastEnders", the Beales and Fowlers, and Holland took the inspiration for some of the series' earliest characters from his