These are the first images that show a devastating fire will rip through Emmerdale’s iconic pub The Woolpack in an explosive Christmas Day storyline on the ITV soap.
In recent weeks, Emmerdale fans have watched as Al Chapman (Michael Wildman) has been conniving and plotting to get his hands on the Woolpack as he plans to turn it into luxury flats.
Having succeeded in investing and becoming a partner, he has already inflicted major changes on the team.
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But in new images released by soap bosses, a Christmas Day inferno is seen ripping through Emmerdale's pub - so will it mean that his plans have gone up in smoke?
And how, with the pub so damaged, will joint owners Chas (Lucy Pargeter) and Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) hold onto their livelihoods?
The Woolpack pub is at the heart of the village of Emmerdale and during its 49 years on screen has had over ten different proprietors - and an array of tragedies.
It burned down in 1998, due to a candle left burning and in 1993 the pub suffered damage due to the plane crash and when in 2003 a lightning strike caused its chimney to collapse, it led to the untimely death of Tricia Dingle.
In 2013 Cameron Murray took hostages at gunpoint within its walls and the cellar was flooded for some action packed tension.
With all this drama it’s unlikely the pub will be out of action for long. It will no doubt rise again from its ashes to do a roaring trade once more but who will be behind the pumps?
This explosive Christmas Day episode will air at 7pm for an hour long special on ITV and subsequently on the ITV Hub.
Producer Kate Brooks said: "It's not just the Woolpack that goes up in flames on Christmas Day, as secrets and lies explode, ripping through the lives of some of our much loved villagers and making it a Christmas they'll never forget."
Fictionally, The Woolpack has been in existence since 1776, and w hen the soap first started in 1972 Amos Brearly was the landlord and had been since 1948.
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