Businesses located at SVR stations
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Several coal merchants and other businesses had offices or depots at SVRSevern Valley Railway stations. This list also includes goods agents and independently run refreshment rooms.
Hartlebury
- Miss M. A. Allard, refreshment rooms. 1879.[1]
- South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited, Railway station. 1879[1].
Stourport
- Thomas Bantock, Goods Agent. 1879 to at least 1940.[1]
- William Boycott, coal merchant, Railway wharf. 1879.[1]
- Thomas William Thomson, coal merchant, agent for Bantock & Co., general carriers, Railway wharf. 1879.[1]
- John William Powell, coal merchant, Railway station. 1896.[2] Powell was trading as a coal and coke merchant from York Street from 1855 with a later building from 1901, The Old Ticket Office, forming part of Stourport Heritage Rooms.[3] Also owned Private Owner wagons.
Bewdley
Bennett's description is "Wooldridge E, coal & salt merchant, Wribbenhall".
Kidderminster
Trader | Business | Earliest and latest known references | Reference | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mr. Done | Refreshment rooms | 1863 | [5] | Occupied the first and second-class refreshment rooms destroyed by fire in 1863 |
Andrew Hatton | Refreshment rooms | 1876 - 1879 | [1][6] | |
William Thomas Martin | Refreshment rooms | 1892 - 1900 | [7][2][8] | |
Thomas Bantock | Goods agent | 1870 - 1953 | [9] | Thomas Bantock expanded his cartage agreements with the GWRGreat Western Railway to include most of the Black Country goods yards including Bewdley, Kidderminster and Stourport. |
George Frederick Green | Iron and worcester moulding sand merchant | 1876 - 1879 | [1][6] | Railway yard, also premises in Hartlebury.[6] |
Benjamin Beach | Coal agent | 1876 - 1900 | [1][7][2][8] | Railway station. Agent for South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited - see separate entry |
South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited | Coal merchant | 1876 – 1936 | [1][6][10][11][12][13][14] | Railway station (Benjamin Beach named as agent 1879, see separate entry). Company based at Worcester.[15] Also owned Private Owner wagons.[16] |
Henry Barrett | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1914 | [7][2][8][17][10][11][18] | Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[19] |
George Bayley | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1921 | [7][2][8][10][12][18] | Railway station |
Alfred Davis | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1948 | [7][2][8][10][11][12][18][20][13][14] | Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[19] |
John & Alfred Findon | Coal merchant | 1896 - 1905 | [2][17] | Railway station yard. Listed as John & Alfred Findon in 1896 and as A. Findon in 1905 |
Thomas Tandy | Coal merchant | 1896 - 1900 | [2][8] | Railway station yard |
Pearson & Co. | Coal merchant | 1900 - 1948 | [8][10][14] | Station yard. Possible connection to B. Pearson & Co. (see separate entry). Arthur B. Pearson was fined during World War I for delivering an underweight load of coal, which he claimed resulted from a shortage of adult labour following conscription.[21] |
B. Pearson & Co. | Builders merchant | 1914 - 1936 | [11][13] | Station yard. Possible connection to Pearson & Co. (see separate entry). |
R. Woodward and Co. | Coal merchant | 1905 | [17] | Station Wharf |
AustinJohn Austin GRA, renowned Bridgnorth-based railway artist and Fellow of The Guild of Railway Artists Brothers | Coal merchants | 1912 - 1948 | [10][20][13][14] | Station yard |
Albert E. Bayley | Isinglass importer | 1912 - 1936 | [10][13] | Station approach. See separate entry for A. E. Bayley, brewer: isinglass is used in brewing. |
Alfred Howell | Coal merchant | 1912 - 1936 | [10][13] | |
George Summers | Coal merchant | 1912 | [10] | Station yard |
W. C. Caswell | Coal merchant | 1933 | [20] | Station yard |
The Economic Coal Co. | Coal merchant | 1933 | [20] | Station yard. Also owned Private Owner wagons.[22] Several railway model websites have the same text, of unknown provenance: "The Economic Coal Company were a relatively unknown coal merchants from Kidderminster, who bought their wagons in 1910, but continued to trade until 1966, when it was wound up." In circa 1913 they also seemingly used a canal wharf in Wolverhampton.[23] |
W. Field | Sand merchant | 1933 | [20] | Station yard |
William Bowen & Son | Coal merchant | 1936 | [13] | Station Drive |
A. E. Bayley | Brewer | 1933 - 1936 | [20][13] | Station approach. See separate entry for Albert E. Bayley, isinglass importer: isinglass is used in brewing. |
Samuel P. Hunt | Goods agent | 1900 | [8] | |
Lunt Bros | Coal merchant | 1936 - 1948 | [13][14] | Station drive |
Thomas. A. Winwood | Coal & coke merchant | 1936 - 1948 | [13][14] | Station Drive |
Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. | 1936 | [13] | Station Drive | |
W. H. Smith & Son | Booksellers & news agents | 1861 - 1905 | [24] | The bookstall closed in 1905 after the GWRGreat Western Railway demanded a rent increase. A shop opened on Comberton Hill the following year. |
Wyman & Sons Limited | News agents | 1912 - 1948 | [10][12][13][14] | Railway station |
Pickfords/National Freight Corporation | Road transport | 1948 - 1985 | Kidderminster goods shed, now the SVRSevern Valley Railway carriage works. | |
Charringtons | Coal merchant | 1996 | [25] | Vacated the coal yard in 1996, at which time GWR 57976 beame SVRSevern Valley Railway property. |
Bridgnorth
- Thomas Whitefoot, refreshment rooms. 1868. Also at The Crown, and Royal Hotel.[26]
- Browning & Wealey, refreshment rooms. 1880 - 1895.[27][28][29]
- William Grantham, refreshment rooms. 1913.[30]
- South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited (Joseph Harry Ritson named as agent), Railway Wharf. 1871 - 1913.[31][28][29][30]
- Joseph Harry Ritson, corn, cake, seed, salt, manure, coal & lime merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1895.[28][29]
- George James Eveson, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1912.[28][29][30]
- Charles E. Pickering, agricultural implement agent, Railway station. 1913[30].
Berrington
- Caswell & Bowden, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891.[28] Caswell & Bowden were coal merchants and brokers based in Birmingham. Also owned Private Owner wagons[32].
Other
- Richard Johns, railway waggon builder and repairer, general wheelwright and implement maker, Station Hill, Kidderminster. 1879[1].
Insurance agents
The first accident insurance policies were developed in the mid-1800s to cover railway accidents and steam boiler explosions.[33] Several Station Masters also acted as agents for insurance companies.
- 1879, Kidderminster Station Master, John Mayers, was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd., London Assurance Corporation (Fire And Life) and Queen Insurance Company.[1]
- 1879, Bewdley, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd.[1] Thomas Appleton was Station Master at that time.
- 1879, Stourport, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd.[1] (George) James Simms was Station Master at that time
See also
- Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
- Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Littlebury's Directory & Gazetteer of Worcester & District, 1879
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1896
- ↑ Stourport Heritage Rooms webpage
- ↑ Bewdley Bennett's Business Directory 1899
- ↑ Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society Building Record of Kidderminster Railway Station
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1900
- ↑ Post Office Directory 1870 (Kidderminster Section)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1912
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Kelly's Directory 1916 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 Midland Counties of England Trade Directory 1948-49
- ↑ Worcester News, 16 May 2001 (Retrieved 21 May 2021)
- ↑ Turton, Keith, 'Private Owner Wagons: A Third Collection' Lightmoor Press (2004) ISBN:9781899889167, 1899889167, p. 88
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Bennetts's Business Directory for Worcestershire, Kidderminster section 1905
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Kelly's Directory 1921 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Cope's Directory & Buyers Guide for Worcestershire Kidderminster section
- ↑ Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society, Great War Britain Kidderminster: Remembering 1914-18, The History Press, 2014 via Google Books (Retrieved 20 May 2021)
- ↑ Peco
- ↑ Wolverhampton History and Heritage website (Retrieved 19 May 2021)
- ↑ SVRSevern Valley Railway News 94, article by David Wilcock
- ↑ SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition p. 76.
- ↑ Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
- ↑ Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1891
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire, 1895
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913
- ↑ Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871
- ↑ Postcard on eBay (Retrieved 21 May 2021)
- ↑ A History of UK Insurance, Swiss Re, 2013