EastEnders and the interior to the Fowlers' is based on a house in Manor Road, Colchester, close to where the supervising art director lived. The fictional local newspaper, the "Walford Gazette", in which local news events such as the arrests or murders of characters appear, mirrors the real "Hackney Gazette". Walford East is a fictional tube station for Walford, and a tube map that was first seen on air in 1996 showed Walford East between Bow Road and West Ham, in the actual location of Bromley-by-Bow on the District and Hammersmith & City lines. Walford has the postal district of E20.
Bow Road tube station (the western end of the platforms) and partly in an open cutting (the eastern end). Bow Road is connected east via thoroughfare of the same name to Bow Church station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) between and as an out of station interchange (OSI) classed as a single station for ticketing purposes but are managed as separate stations. London Buses services serve the station, key routes 25 and 205, local route 425, and night route N205. Bow Road tube station Bow Road is a London Underground station in Bow, East End of London, England. It is on the District