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22 Sedley Taylor Road (rear) circa 19481936-38:
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 Collection]
Aileen M Prior, b 1910, serologist
Gertrude E Richards, b 1893, cook
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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.”
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:
St John’s College in 1947 floods
St John’s College in 1947 floods
Trinity College Bridge in 1947 floods
View of Millpond from Silver Street in 1947 floods
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:
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
22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)
22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)
22 Sedley Taylor Road (2002)
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