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.
Highgate tube station 3–7 minutes between 06:01 and 01:01 northbound and 05:37 and 00:18 southbound (as of 2015). As of 2015, London Bus routes 43, 134 and 263 and night bus route N20 serve the station. The disused platforms and tunnels have sometimes been used for filming and have appeared in several productions including the feature film "Paperhouse", and the television series "EastEnders" and "Waking the Dead". Highgate tube station Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is