LIFE IN ALBERT SQUARE

The popular BBC soap drama EastEnders has been running since 1985 and has a regular audience go over 5 million.  The programme follows the everyday life of residents and their families in the fictional borough of Walford. The puzzle below is names of regular characters from the show? Can you work them out from the clues give, when you have completed the whole puzzle, the letters in the shaded squares will reveal a related place?