A two-story flat-roofed brick house with metal-framed windows sits behind a garden with shrubs and a small lawn.

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 )

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

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.”

Two women stand on a lawn in front of a two-story brick house with a complex roofline and a woven fence in the background.

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:

The stone facade of St John’s College reflected in the flooded, still water of the grounds surrounding the buildings. — St John’s College Cambridge in 1947 floods

Stone buildings and leafless trees are reflected in a large, still expanse of floodwater in this monochromatic view. — St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1947 floods

High water floods the grounds of Trinity College in Cambridge, with bare tree branches hanging over the expanse of water. — Trinity College Bridge Cambridge in 1947 floods

Expansive floodwaters cover the landscape, reflecting a utility pole and distant silhouettes of trees and stone buildings. — 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

A light-coloured, two-storey modern house with a large green lawn, flowering bushes, and people seated at a patio table.

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

Two-story house with cream walls, tiled roof, and a ground-floor conservatory, seen from a green lawn with patio furniture. — 22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)

A green grassy lawn stretches into the distance, bordered by large leafy trees and scattered with fallen brown autumn leaves. — 22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)

A two-story light-colored house with a dark roof and a red estate car parked on a gravel driveway in front of mature trees. — 22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)

Projects

Sedley Taylor Road

Share this article

Facebook Bluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated by.