This issue is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Derek Martin.

We don’t know about you at home, but ever since 1st January and the flash forward episode, everyone here at Walford Walk HQ has been re-watching, freeze-framing and comparing notes while nursing our hangovers, trying to unravel the mystery of New Year’s Day 2027!

Well… That was all a bit mad, wasn’t it? We’re coming to the end of the really strange limbo week between Christmas and New Year, conducting end-of-year reviews, updating profiles and giving the place a bit of a spruce up and what happens in Walford? All Hell breaks loose, that’s…

Well, we’re almost at the end of another year! When we started this Archive a year and a half ago, EastEnders was about to enter it’s 40th year with Suki and Eve‘s wedding, and now look at us! We’re here, making our 627th post and growing all the time! It’s…

We hope you’re all feeling festive! We’re doing last minute wrapping here at Walford Walk – we’re hoping for something warm to take the Winter Winds away, but whatever happens, we’ll be having an easier time of it than those living in Walford!

First, let’s get some news out of the way. Sadly, Teddy Mitchell actor Roland Manookian has left EastEnders after 18 months on the Square. It seems Teddy’s stay in prison will be a long one. Here at A Walk Through Walford, we’re quite devasted. We had hoped that Teddy would…

Time moves very quickly in soap land. It’s hard to believe that nearly a whole year has passed since Nigel Bates returned to Albert Square in secret, with a diagnosis of dementia that would not only change his life and those of the people who cared for him, but ours…