EastEnders: the SPOILERS thread!

[Southeastdweller]

Welcome to the EastEnders spoilers thread, where we post and talk about any EE spoilers we've read about, including those in early release episodes on iPlayer.

Link below to watch episodes on BBC iPlayer - these are usually dropped at 6am on broadcast days - and you can read brief synopses of upcoming episodes:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d

Aha! Thank you! So many mysteries. I was shocked but pleased to see Cindy return though.

Ok but where did Kathy and Pete’s live then? I recall maybe they lived in a flat? Or was that when they were younger. I agree re Ian’s business sense not being brilliant but he does have some ex wives/partners.

So confusing who owns what, who owes who what! Who’s slept with whom and had kids with who what?! 🤣

Thanks for this.

My hazy memory is that Kathy and Pete lived in a high rise flat on a council estate. We only saw the interior but the estate was alluded to when Ian began his catering career, became a successful businessman and moved into a flat on the square. He was a poster child for the Thatcher working class boy done well who came from ‘umble beginnings and I think he had arguments with Pete about wanting more from life that the market stall and a flat on an estate.

I think Pauline and Arthur’s house was also a council property that Pauline managed to buy. Nowadays it would be too expensive for a working class couple even with a Right to Buy discount.

I actually find it really interesting watching old episodes of EE that reflect how life in London has changed. There was really old episode where Den was renting out a flat and someone mentioned it was £45 a week!!

If George doesn’t know how much money is in the bag (which is odd in itself but anyway) then I would definitely do that. Eddie said it was in the low 6 figures so maybe £100,000 and change. Mind boggling that it all fit into the bottom of that bag. Even more puzzling that Eddie arranged for a friend to just put the bag in a cab and send to George’s. Anything could have happened to it!!

I remember Pete and Kathy in their high rise too.

It was Walford Towers, not sure of the accuracy of this but it apparently details all of the residents who’ve lived there over the years

eastenders.fandom.com/wiki/Walford_Towers

The East End was affordable back when EE started even for people on lower salaries and normal jobs.
My brother bought a place near Stratford in 1972 for under 4k and they had ordinary careers and not much money. They had to beg steal and borrow to get that place. You could probably buy it with a loan if it was that price now!
It is unbelievable that someone like Lauren and Peter with two young boys and fairly low paid jobs could afford the rent on Dot’s old place these days. Even with her dodgy car set up and Phil’s safe to bail her out.
Yet they do.
Ian was definitely a Conservative poster boy , tbf his done well against the odds hasn’t he up to now! Quite the business man back then too.
I remember kath and Peter and her knitting business in the flat too.

It was quite conservative in 1985 if you think about it. A teenager turned business man ( Ian ) Kathy and her various businesses stall etc , the pub being run by two working class people with aspirations, even Sharon went to public school and not where Michelle went.
The poorer ones like the Fowler’s were finally a bit better off by buying the house, but it was hard going and reaped rewards now of course with house prices increasing. It’s all things today’s youth can only dream of most of the time.