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Signe Laven34 Causewayside
History of 34 Causewayside
1939
Miss Signe Elfrida Laven, teacher of Educational Gymnastics Masseuse
Born in 1885 in Holmestad, Sweden, she was a pioneer of physiotherapy and set up a war emergency massage corps in Cambridge in WWI. In the 1911 census she was living in Harston House, Harston with several other Swedish gymnasts.
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