12 (48) Panton Street, The Light Dragoon

History of 12 Panton Street

1901 (48)

Thomas Long, 37, musician, b Dublin

Lily, 23, b Suffolk

Florence, 10m, b Cambridge

Sarah Pettit, mother in law, 59, living on own means, b Cambridge

1911 (48)

George Shepherd, 48, publican, b Sussex

Caroline Mary, 33, b Berks

George Osmond, 5, b Cambridge

1913 The Light Dragoon

G Shepherd

1931 – 1957

Julius Wehrle

Caroline

Julius died in 1940 aged 73. Caroline lived here until she died aged 85 in 1952. Caroline’s younger sister Rose Lilian Hessey continued to live at this address.

The Wehrle family were living in 1911 at 4 Lensfield Road.

1962 –

North west side of Panton Street (MoC328/70)

PS sent this note in 2024: Dr Elizabeth Shoenberg, who had been living in this address from the early 60s. She died in 2005, living her house to her nephew Dr Peter Shoenberg. My aunt Dr Elizabeth Shoenberg was for many years a Consultant Psychiatrist at Claybury Hospital (in Woodford, Essex) where she pioneered a therapeutic community approach to treating mentally ill patients and she was a member of the Newnham College Roll ; in retirement she was also very active in teaching at the U3A Cambridge. She was born in Chiswick , London in 1918 and was the daughter of Sir Isaac Shoenberg , an electrical engineer ( from St Petersburg) and was the younger sister of Professor David Shoenberg, a low temperature physicist at the Cavendish laboratory.

Dr Elizabeth Shoenberg, Panton Street c.2000