Walford Olympic Park). Walford's fictional tube station, Walford East, is located on the "EastEnders" tube map in the position normally occupied by the real Bromley-by-Bow tube station. As part of 2010 Children In Need charity appeal, Walford became twinned with Weatherfield in a special programme uniting the two soaps "EastEnders" and "Coronation Street" called "East Street". The main setting of "EastEnders" is Albert Square, where many of the characters reside. Central to the Square is the garden. The garden is home to Arthur Fowler's bench, which was placed there in memory of him. The bench is also known as the 'Bench
The Banned (EastEnders) been described as "an horrific scenario where fact and soap merged in messy fashion to give the fictional band a real-life hit with the appalling Something Out Of Nothing." The songs, which "were recorded when the show was riding high on huge ratings success", have not aged well in critical opinion. A critic for "The Guardian" newspaper has commented that "The Banned" was "EastEnders"' "Eighties bid to add a pop angle to their socially conscious template", which "went down like the proverbial ton of bricks". The critic goes on to say: "Worse was the record; an acne-scarred 'song' of no