Eddie Yeats

===Stan and Hilda Ogden===
[[Image:Eddie ogdens.JPG|thumb|right|180px|Eddie and his "adopted parents", [[Stan Ogden|Stan]] and [[Hilda Ogden]]]]
Despite their low income, [[Stan Ogden|Stan]] and [[Hilda Ogden]] rarely took lodgers (since they moved into the house in [[1964]], they only had one lodger - [[Jim Mount]]). Eddie was an exception as he had done a favour for Hilda by helping her decorate the parlour, and gave her something to brag to the neighbours about by creating the [[mural]] for her.

Even though he wasn't living there from late 1976 to [[1980]], Eddie was a near-permanent fixture at No.13. He was sympathetic to oafish Stan, who liked nothing better than a good dinner (cooked by Hilda) followed by an evening in the pub, but Stan was lazy even by Eddie's standards, and it was usually up to Eddie to act as an ally to Hilda in motivating Stan or warning him when his actions threatened to put him on Hilda's bad side, as Eddie was all to aware that Hilda was a force to be reckoned with when she was angry.

Eddie often went out of his way to help the Ogdens, or (more often) to pawn his friends' cast-offs onto them. In [[1979]], he took possession of six hens, and made a coop for them in No.13's garden. He even convinced Hilda to keep them by promising they would be lucrative, but when the Ogdens were made a laughing stock because of the hens, Hilda made Eddie roast them for food. His promise to get a colour television for the Ogdens was even less successful - he only got them a colour tinted screen. In [[1977]], he started a short-lived curtain-making business with Hilda, cut short when [[Mike Baldwin]] wouldn't let Hilda use his factory. In 1979, he gave Hilda cause to laugh when he sold one of Hilda's own paintings to [[Annie Walker]], with Annie thinking an undiscovered talent was behind it. Hilda was able to milk the situation by encouraging Annie to compliment the work (although Annie had the last laugh as she sold it for a profit after finding out that Hilda was the artist).

Perhaps Eddie's kindest gesture to the Ogdens was in "buying" Stan's window cleaning round from him, and employing Stan to clean the bottom floor windows of his customers, as Stan was nearly infirm and couldn't climb his ladder. He didn't make any money from it, and only accepted half of the money back when Hilda tried to pay back what she considered a loan.