14 Eden Street

History of 14 Eden Street

1913

Walter Winter, coachman

1939

Maria P Winter, b 1876

Edith, b 1905

Albert E, b 1914, club steward

1942

The Winter family [see photo] in 1942 taken in the back garden of 14 Eden Street. My great grandmother – Mariah Winter on the left , my grandad Ted Winter (born 1914 – died 2005) in the middle and his elder sister Eade Winter (died 1987) on the right. I see you have Walter Winter listed at 14 Eden Street. He was my grandad’s father and wife of Mariah, but passed away approx in 1921. In total Mariah bought up her 6 children mostly on her own …. tough times in ‘The Kite’ back then. They were moved out of 14 Eden Street to Kings Hedges in 1966.

Photo by Ted Winter taken in Egypt WWII

Ted (Albert Edward Winter) – ‘Grandad’ served in the Middle East during the WWII. He was in charge of setting up cinemas for the troops out there. I believe this photo was taken as he came back to marry my nana – Ida (died 2010) and then was sent straight back out to the Middle East again, hence why his mum and sister Eade look so proud too see him briefly. Ted went to King Street School and then Central School in Hyde Park Corner. After leaving school he worked at Christ’s College as a waiter from the age of 14/15 and then moved to London for a few years working in St James Place as a waiter. He then returned to Cambridge and worked at the Kinema before the war briefly and the Vic Cinema running the film projectors. Before he retired he worked in a garage spray-painting cars. His mothers side were Dutch – we believe of Jewish background –  who came to the UK in the late 19th Century. His elder brother Walter Winter (same name as their father) lived in Broad Street and also worked at The Kinema. He was a well known character up to his death in Cambridge in 2005. In his younger years he was a keen photographer and he took many pictures of the Kite in the early 1930s.

Ida Winter, Eden Street

(Email from CDE 2022)

1962 vacant

1970

Mrs M A Nightingale

1975

14 Eden Street, 1975

Deborah Smith lived here as a student nurse in the early 1970s. She wrote in 2024: a delivery lorry had hit the wall! Mrs Clark and Mrs Green were our neighbours.  My bedroom was the downstairs front one, with the open window. …. For a few years I lived in Covent Garden, off Mill Rd. We called it Slum Row. I loved it although I wasn’t so keen on the mould or the mice footprints in the fat left in the frying pan. But we were warm and had a fridge (gas!) and ancient cooker and bathroom and immersion heater and launderette nearby, and a garden backing on to Fenners and Hughes Hall where we could hang our washing out to dry. Mill Rd wasn’t achingly trendy then. There were butchers and grocers and greengrocers and hardware shops – and Arjuna of course. (Still there I believe).  Andy’s Records, Brown’s Bookshop,  Barney’s, Tigerlily, the Library. All gone.