Brigade at the same time as Sally but had been rejected, which made her resentful of Sally's success in the job. She also had an affair with Blackwall Station Officer Chris Hammond. Patti Pearce (Yvonne O'Grady, 1993–1996) – Geoff's first wife Jacqui Parker (Sharon Gavin, 1998–2000) Evgenia Estafis (Sonia Graham, 1995–1997) – Mother of Ariadne, and grandmother of Nick Georgiadis's son Costas. Tiggy (Anouka Brook, 1997) – girlfriend of Firefighter Gregg Blake. Kate the LFB Call Centre Operator (Natalie Robb, 2001) – Both Adam and Hi Ho flirted with her. Locations The earlier series used Dockhead Fire Station (opened in the 1928) at 8 Wolseley Street, London SE1, as the exterior for Blackwall. The Jacob Street studio is opposite, housing a full scale reproduction of the mess, built by Colin Monk. The actual station mess was also used in the series, as were many other parts of the station and its actual firefighters. To this day Dockhead is still an operational fire station, with just one pump ladder and the South East Area Command Unit (callsigned E341 & CU4), but the original station was demolished and rebuilt by the London Fire Brigade in 2016 to allow for the Brigade's redevelopment and modernisation. The crew and pump ladder were temporarily located at the nearby Deptford Fire Station for the duration of the work, as Old Kent Road fire station (shown as Borough Street station in the series) was also being rebuilt. The Swan and Sugar Loaf pub, located opposite the station and which featured as the firefighters' local pub in the early series was converted into flats in the early 90's. This necessitated a move to The Ship Aground pub located next door to the station, which still exists to this day. The location of the original fictional Blackwall fire station is about 800m from Tower Bridge but approximately 6 miles from the eponymous real life Blackwall. Locations used throughout the show were ostensibly filmed around the London postal district of SE16 at a time when the London Docklands Development Corporation were redeveloping the derelict areas of east and south east London. Notable filming locations include Chambers Wharf, Surrey Quays and Bermondsey. The restaurant opened by Mike 'Bayleaf' Wilson in series 8 was filmed on location at The Chequers Inn, Deal, Kent. From series 13 the original Blackwall station was revealed to have closed down and relocated. The final 2 series