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
Wood Lane tube station was decided to build a new station on the Hammersmith & City line, just south-west of the old Metropolitan station on Wood Lane. In 2006 Transport for London decided on the name "Wood Lane", reviving a historical name. This was the first time that a new station on the Tube had been given the name of a former station that had been closed for several years. The station opened on 12 October 2008. In December 2009 Wood Lane was added to the Circle line when the line was extended to Hammersmith. Wood Lane Underground Station was designed by Ian Ritchie