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Davids, St Edward's PassageSt Edward’s Passage
History of St Edward's Passage
Listed Buildings:
Nos 3 &4, 8, 9, 10, 12-15.
St Edward’s Passage
1851:
(1) William Henry Lawrence, 23, bookbinder, b Cambridge
(2) ‘Gentle Shepherd’: David Brown, 35, butcher and publican, b Milton
1861:
(2 & 3): to let
(4):
William George Elliss, 42, painter plumber and glazier, b Cambridge
(5):
Richard Martin, 64, carpenter and bowmaker, b Soham
Martin owned a field on the Grantchester side of Cambridge which was used as an archery ground. Josiah Chater mentioned it in his diary 5.7.1848.
(6):
Robert Benjamin Nunn, 33, cheese warehouse man, b Norfolk
(7):
William Dennington, 76, wood carver and Chelsea Pensioner, b Suffolk
(8):
John Blyth Kempton, 38, tailor, b Ely
(9) Red House
Thomas Hyde, 66, publican, b Somerset
(10):
Patrick Seekins, 66, painter, b Cambridge
(11):
Sarah Holden, 60, housekeeper, b Somerset
(12):
Ann Swann, 62, proprietor of houses, b Cambridge
(16): ?
(17):
Edward Smith, 32, grocers assistant, b Bedford
(18):
Mark Ives Whibley, 36, manager of grocer, b Kent
(19):
Thomas Reynolds, 50, victualler painter and compositor, b Cambridge
1866-1871:
Cambridge YMCA
See Enid Porter’s article: The YMCA
1913:
South Side from Peas Hill to King’s Parade
1/2 J P Young, draper
3 A Morgan-Scott, engraver
4 –
5 H J O’Hare, tailor
6 Miss Goff
7 G David, bookseller and printseller
8 –
9 Eliza Back, The Red House
10 & 11 Church of England Young Men’s Society Rooms
West Side
12 – 15 Mrs Bell, lodging house keeper
St Edward’s Church
North Side
16 W de Lappe Winter
16 Norwich Warehouse Co. Ltd
Brimley Whibley & Sons warehouse
Central Temperance Hotel and Coffee Tavern
Peas Hill
11/9/1908 A miniature rifle range and air rifle club has been formed in connection with the Church of England Young Men’s Society at their large room in St Edward’s Passage. The two targets can be placed in two positions – for shooting standing up or lying down – and two good air rifles have been provided. Englishmen should learn to shoot in order to defend their own hearths and homes and the Corporation should establish a range open almost all hours of the day. (Cam.News)
St Edward’s Passage, 4.3.1935 (Cambridgeshire Collection)
In foreground building work on Arts Theatre in progress.
St Edward’s Passage, Mary C Greene (MoC)
St Edward’s Passage
St Edward’s Passage
St Edward’s Passage
…………
1962
South Side from King’s Parade
3,4,16 G David bookseller
5,6 Arts Restaurant
5,6 Art Theatre
8 –
10, 11 Girton College Lecture Rooms
West Side
12,13 Miss B Wickstead
12/13 Anand Sabhai
12/13 Miss B Webb
14 Idris Arthur Turley
15 Mrs Smith
St Edward’s Church
North Side
16,3,4 G David bookseller
17a Lady Keynes
17b Henry Dixon Phd
The Cambridge Ghost Book, 2000, Halliday and Murdie, records that 9, St Edward’s passage, ‘The Haunted Bookshop’, has the ghost of a fair haired girl, first seen in 1986. The figure has been seen on numerous occasions and has been the subject of a cable channel programme, The Y Files, in 1997.
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