10 Earl Street

History of 10 Earl Street

1901

Emma Elizabeth White Robinson, 44, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge [died 1901]

Lilian Emma White, 20, drapers shop assistant, b Cambridge [Lilian married in 1906; died 1909]

William White, 18, ?? machine striker, b Cambridge

Thomas Allen White, 14, b Cambridge

Hari G R Gharpurry, 22, b India

The Robinson family had moved here from Market Hill after the death of William White Robinson in 1896.

1911

1913

Charles Theodore Hermges, waiter

MW wrote in 2024: I knew a Solvi Bateson, a Norwegian writer, who lived in 10 Earl street in 1970. She then married Boris von Heisler. it was a lovely house. She used to come to a small village on the Suffolk coast. She had friends there, among them an English actress.

10 Earl Street, Solvi Bateson

I can’t tell you much about life in Cambridge except for the weekend I stayed with Mrs Bateson ( or Mrs von Heisler by then, she was a widow  prior to then). It was  interesting that she was a translator; she was very friendly with Ann Todd, a British actress who became famous for the ‘Seventh Veil’ with James Mason in which she plays a pianist under a guardian who was tyrannical. She called her daughter after the character she played. I met Miss Todd in Walberswick where she used to stay in the Anchor Hotel and eventually bought a house there.