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Old 21-08-2016, 17:44
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I’m Danish, and a huge EE fan, go to London several times a year, and always spend one of the days up Borehamwood, so have met a lot of the cast over the years.

Anyway, I know what the Eastend generally looks like – well, Tower Hamlets etc. – but is there anywhere in the real Eastend which still resembles Walford / Albert Sq, same demographics etc, i.e. still mainly Brits/cockneys – so I could go there next time I come over, and when I get there, I’ll feel like I walk around in Walford.

I know Albert Sq is based on Fassett Sq in Hackney, but when you search it on google maps, it’s a residential area – no market, shops etc.

So where should I go next time I’m in London? or - do I have to go to some obscure place in Essex ?
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Old 21-08-2016, 19:34
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You have to get the tube from platform 9 3/4 between Angel and Islington.
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Old 21-08-2016, 19:35
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You have to get the tube from platform 9 3/4 between Angel and Islington.
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Old 21-08-2016, 19:47
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If you want the East end 'market feel' with cafe's and a couple of pubs around, try wandering around Petticoat Lane market on Wentworth / Middlesex Street. Dead close to the city.

There are a lot of 'square' type developments around Victoria Park village. It's hard to find somewhere demographically similar as Eastenders doesn't come close to reflecting reality, but the area around Vicky park wouldn't be far off I guess.
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Old 21-08-2016, 20:32
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Walford East tube station replaces Bromley-by-Bow on tube map, but I don't know what Browley-by-Bow is actually like and how representative it is of the EastEnders version of the 'East End'?
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Old 22-08-2016, 15:51
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If you want the East end 'market feel' with cafe's and
a couple of pubs around, try wandering around Petticoat Lane market on Wentworth / Middlesex Street. Dead close to the city.

There are a lot of 'square' type developments around Victoria Park village. It's hard to find somewhere demographically similar as Eastenders doesn't come close to reflecting reality, but the area around Vicky park wouldn't be far off I guess.
thanks tip - Victoria Park village, may investigate that - but from what I've heard, it's getting posh. Petticoat Lane - no way - will be packed with (fellow) tourists - I mean, it's just round the corner from Liverpool St station innit? Never actually been even though I'm in that area a lot - I'm obsessed with the Gherkin - so when Michael proposed to Janinie up the top floor - you must have heard my scream on the other side of the North Sea - watched it again and again on youtube afterwards. Janine is one of my fave characters.
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Old 22-08-2016, 19:48
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Walford East tube station replaces Bromley-by-Bow on tube map, but I don't know what Browley-by-Bow is actually like and how representative it is of the EastEnders version of the 'East End'?
Absolutely nothing like it! The station itself is on a main road between Mile End and Stratford - you'll struggle to find a white face around there (not being racist, just stating a fact). Just up the road you'll find Whitechapel, which does have a market but you definitely won't find a Martin type there, you'd have more luck in Romford I assure you, no East End types live there now or have done for many years, a lot of them have moved further out into Essex/greater London.
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Old 22-08-2016, 20:24
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I used to live in Bromley by Bow it's a dump. Roman Road market has a similar vibe (well it did). Or even crisp street market in poplar.
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Old 23-08-2016, 12:39
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You have to get the tube from platform 9 3/4 between Angel and Islington.
This. And also if you are a muggle then sadly, you can't go.
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Old 23-08-2016, 12:48
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I used to live in Bethnal Green, which is in the heart of the East End and kind of looks like Walford.

When walking along the Regent's Canal by Victoria Park I used to imagine that was where Den was shot
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Old 23-08-2016, 14:40
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This. And also if you are a muggle then sadly, you can't go.
What about if you're a Mitchell?
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Old 23-08-2016, 14:41
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I used to live in Bethnal Green, which is in the heart of the East End and kind of looks like Walford.

When walking along the Regent's Canal by Victoria Park I used to imagine that was where Den was shot
Did you carry some daffs for protection?
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Old 23-08-2016, 14:54
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Isn't Walford supposed to be in between WALthamsow and StratFORD, Hence Walford?
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Old 23-08-2016, 16:03
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It's near West Ham and they all pretend to be West Ham supporters.
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Old 23-08-2016, 17:09
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sad news - no "real" walford. So ... when did it "dissappear" ? there must have been an area like that when they started in 1985

I've only watched it since 2001 - but I'm a huge fan, and I do remember I read somewhere, not a clue where or when - OK; online probably - but it was something about the real Eastend market traders sort of copying the Walford market traders, e.g. forever going to the cafe for a cuppa
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Old 23-08-2016, 17:47
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OMG OMG need me' head looked at - sometimes when I've been to "Walford" - there was a market on Henley Rd - starting at the Superdrug (now closed) on the corner of Clarendon Rd and Henley Rd .... seemed a bit like the one in "Walford" - it's hasn't been there every time I've been - so perhaps they only have it a couple of times a week
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