22 Sedley Taylor Road

History of 22 Sedley Taylor Road

1936-38

Samuel Urwin, Cambridgeshire County architect

Elsie (Bennett )

1939

Willett Trevor, b 1870, retired district officer Tanganyika

Nancy S, b 1887

Jack C, b 1907, university lecturer in anthropology [the first director of the Duckworth Collection]

Aileen M Prior, b 1910, serologist

Gertrude E Richards, b 1893, cook

1945-61

Kathleen Rishbeth (Haddon)

John Rishbeth

1944

22 Sedley Taylor Road (rear) circa 1948

Kathleen Rishbeth lived here with her daughter Margaret from 1944. In 1981 Percy Gray of no.26 related this story about the mulberry tree in no.22. “During the war the house was occupied by Mrs Kathleen Rishbeth. At the time of the Normandy landings a special artificial harbour called a ‘mulberry harbour’ was constructed at Avranches to help the landing operations. Mrs Rishbeth planted a mulberry tree at the time to commemorate the landings.”

22 Sedley Taylor Road – Margaret Rishbeth and mother in 1948 with mulberry in background

In this interview Margaret Rishbeth of Hinton Avenue (2016) recalls the period she lived with her mother in Sedley Taylor Road including the time she was a student at Homerton College.

At the time of the 1947 Cambridge floods Margaret took these pictures around the centre of the city:

St John’s College in 1947 floods

St John’s College in 1947 floods

Trinity College Bridge in 1947 floods

View of Millpond from Silver Street in 1947 floods

Sources: interview

1950

William Scott-Moncrief, Lieutenant-colonel

Rosemary (Knollys)

1964

Jack Carrick Trevor, university lecturer in anthropology

1966-70

James Mitchell

Anne

1970-1977

Peter and Wendy George

1977-2002

22 Sedley Taylor Road (sent by family)

Mike and Soraya Smith

It was in 2002 that the name Mulberry House was used for the first time

22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)

22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)

22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)