22 Sedley Taylor Road, Cambridge (rear) circa 1948

22 Sedley Taylor Road, Cambridge

History of 22 Sedley Taylor Road

1936-38

Samuel Urwin, Cambridgeshire County architect

Elsie (Bennett )

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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 Collections]
Aileen M Prior, b 1910, serologist
Gertrude E Richards, b 1893, cook

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1945-61

Kathleen Rishbeth (Haddon)

John Rishbeth

1944

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.”

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:

Sources: interview

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1950

William Scott-Moncrief, Lieutenant-colonel

Rosemary (Knollys)

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1964

Jack Carrick Trevor, university lecturer in anthropology

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1966-70

James Mitchell
Anne

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1970-1977

Peter and Wendy George

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1977-2002

Mike and Soraya Smith

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