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.
Dagenham Heathway tube station Dagenham Heathway tube station Dagenham Heathway is a London Underground station on the District line located in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is in London fare zone 5. The station was opened in 1932. The station was constructed and initially operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway with services provided by the District line from the outset. The station was called Heathway when it first opened, changing to its present name in 1949. It is of similar design to Upney and Elm Park with the platforms arranged on a central island with a long sloping walkway