A black and white head-and-shoulders portrait of a middle-aged woman with dark wavy hair wearing a collared patterned blouse.

Signe Laven

34 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.

For more information:

http://www.harstonhistory.org.uk/content/people/signe-elfrida-laven

Building dates

Built 1930–1949

Source for this date

Built 1930–1949: EPC construction age band: 1930–1949

Projects

Causewayside

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