The Firm (EastEnders) The Firm (EastEnders) The Firm is a fictional gangland organisation in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". In late 1985, members of The Firm made local headlines when they were deemed unofficially responsible for putting Kenny Malone, a local badboy, through a sausage machine. Den Watts (Leslie Grantham), who attended school with two of the Vinnicombe brothers, The Firm's tyrannical and elusive leaders, threatened Nick Cotton (John Altman) with the gang unless he left Walford, following his blackmailing Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth). The menfolk of Albert Square thought it was a bluff until Den revealed the truth to Tony Carpenter (Oscar
Hendon Central tube station a crossroads controlled by traffic signals. Writing in 1932, William Passingham commented the integrated approach taken at Hendon Central as "an outstanding example of the co-ordination of road-planning with passenger station requirements." He noted, only nine years after the station opened, that it had already become the centre of an "ever-widening cluster of new houses" and accurately predicted that it would become "the centre of [a] small township", or what would now be called a suburb. London Buses routes 83, 113, 143, 186, 324 and 326 and night route N113 serve the station. Hendon Central tube station Hendon Central is