EastEnders created the Beale and Fowler family, drawing on his own background. His mother, Ethel Holland, was one of four sisters raised in Walthamstow. Her eldest sister, Lou, had married a man named Albert Beale and had two children, named Peter and Pauline. These family members were the basis for Lou Beale, Pete Beale and Pauline Fowler. Holland also created Pauline's unemployed husband Arthur Fowler, their children Mark Fowler and Michelle Fowler, Pete's wife Kathy Beale and their son Ian Beale. Smith used her personal memories of East End residents she met when researching Victorian squares. Ethel Skinner was based on
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