Re: 198 Villa Street.
Hiya Lin. I forgot to tell you. I enlisted the help of a Genealogist back in 2005, in the search for a picture of the house I lived in, behind that Garage. I found an old Map some time ago in the Central Library, and on it the house was called, Grove House. Gordon, the Genealogist. Accessed the Website, A2A (Access to Archives) and came up with documents held at the Central Library that he'd previously found.
There were no "hits" for Grove house, and 7 for Villa street, mostly relating to deeds of the properties in that street which was laid out in 1843. He was looking at the map I gave him of the area and he thinks that Grove house pre-dated other properties and that they were in effect, built around Grove house and other existing buildings, even the big Villa which is still standing next door. I wonder if Mikejee could find us something on his maps.? Reg, Cookie55.