This villa was for many years the home of William George Berridge and his family.
Berridge seems to have shifted to Vogeltown about 1907-08, and it is thought the present villa was probably constructed around this date - Berridge first appears as residing in Vogeltown in the 1909 edition of Stones Street Directory and is first rated for water to a house on Pt Section 60, Vogeltown, during the 1908-09 rating year.
A rating book for 1913 notes the value of the property as £26.
Related items:
Grey District, Section 60, Taranaki Land Deed Index I14 Page 76. (Archives New Zealand)
Taranaki DP1948 Sheet 1 (1902), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
Taranaki DP4239 Sheet 1 (1922), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
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