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|data-sort-value="Tandy"|Thomas Tandy || Coal merchant || 1896 - 1900 || <ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> || Railway station yard | |data-sort-value="Tandy"|Thomas Tandy || Coal merchant || 1896 - 1900 || <ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> || Railway station yard | ||
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− | |data-sort-value="Pearson"|Pearson & Co. || Coal merchant || 1900 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Station yard. Possible connection to ''B. Pearson & Co.'' (see separate entry). | + | |data-sort-value="Pearson"|Pearson & Co. || Coal merchant || 1900 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || 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.<ref>Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society, ''Great War Britain Kidderminster: Remembering 1914-18'', The History Press, 2014 via [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DayOBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT150&lpg=PT150&dq=Pearson+AND+coal+AND+%22Kidderminster%22&source=bl&ots=uOC7olT5Q5&sig=ACfU3U1naGBglzLn2mquBmhbTyqbchRsSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiX27PV7tjwAhUr8-AKHRP3CegQ6AEwBnoECAUQAw#v=onepage&q=Pearson%20AND%20coal%20AND%20%22Kidderminster%22&f=false Google Books] (Retrieved 20 May 2021)</ref> |
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|data-sort-value="Pearson"|B. Pearson & Co. || Builders merchant || 1914 - 1936 || <ref name="Bennetts1914"> [http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/339968 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914]</ref><ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station yard. Possible connection to ''Pearson & Co.'' (see separate entry). | |data-sort-value="Pearson"|B. Pearson & Co. || Builders merchant || 1914 - 1936 || <ref name="Bennetts1914"> [http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/339968 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914]</ref><ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station yard. Possible connection to ''Pearson & Co.'' (see separate entry). |
Revision as of 18:27, 20 May 2021
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] Also owned Private Owner wagons.
Bewdley
- Neri Wooldridge, coal and lime merchant, Wribbenhall; depot at Railway station. 1879[1].
Kidderminster
Trader | Business | Earliest and latest known references | Reference | Notes |
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Mr. Done | Refreshment rooms | 1863 | [3] | Occupied the first and second-class refreshment rooms destroyed by fire in 1863 |
Andrew Hatton | Refreshment rooms | 1876 - 1879 | [1][4] | |
William Thomas Martin | Refreshment rooms | 1892 - 1900 | [5][2][6] | |
Thomas Bantock | Goods agent | 1870 - 1953 | [7] | 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 Feror Green | Moulding sand merchant | 1876 - 1879 | [1][4] | Railway yard |
Benjamin Beach | Coal agent | 1876 - 1900 | [1][5][2][6] | 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][4][8][9][10][11][12] | Railway station (Benjamin Beach named as agent 1879, see separate entry) |
Henry Barrett | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1914 | [5][2][6][13][8][9][14] | Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[15] |
George Bayley | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1921 | [5][2][6][8][10][14] | Railway station |
Alfred Davis | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1948 | [5][2][6][8][9][10][14][16][11][12] | Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[15] |
John & Alfred Findon | Coal merchant | 1896 - 1905 | [2][13] | Railway station yard. Listed as John & Alfred Findon in 1896 and as A. Findon in 1905 |
Thomas Tandy | Coal merchant | 1896 - 1900 | [2][6] | Railway station yard |
Pearson & Co. | Coal merchant | 1900 - 1948 | [6][8][12] | 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.[17] |
B. Pearson & Co. | Builders merchant | 1914 - 1936 | [9][11] | Station yard. Possible connection to Pearson & Co. (see separate entry). |
R. Woodward and Co. | Coal merchant | 1905 | [13] | Station Wharf |
AustinJohn Austin GRA, renowned Bridgnorth-based railway artist and Fellow of The Guild of Railway Artists Brothers | Coal merchants | 1912 - 1948 | [8][16][11][12] | Station yard |
Albert E. Bayley | Isinglass importer | 1912 - 1936 | [8][11] | Station approach. See separate entry for A. E. Bayley, brewer: isinglass is used in brewing. |
Alfred Howell | Coal merchant | 1912 - 1936 | [8][11] | |
George Summers | Coal merchant | 1912 | [8] | Station yard |
W. C. Caswell | Coal merchant | 1933 | [16] | Station yard |
The Economic Coal Co. | Coal merchant | 1933 | [16] | Station yard. Also owned Private Owner wagons.[18] 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.[19] |
W. Field | Sand merchant | 1933 | [16] | Station yard |
William Bowen & Son | Coal merchant | 1936 | [11] | Station Drive |
A. E. Bayley | Brewer | 1933 - 1936 | [16][11] | Station approach. See separate entry for Albert E. Bayley, isinglass importer: isinglass is used in brewing. |
Samuel P. Hunt | Goods agent | 1900 | [6] | |
Lunt Bros | Coal merchant | 1936 - 1948 | [11][12] | Station drive |
Thomas. A. Winwood | Coal & coke merchant | 1936 - 1948 | [11][12] | Station Drive |
Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. | 1936 | [11] | Station Drive | |
W. H. Smith & Son | Booksellers & news agents | 1861 - 1905 | [20] | 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 | [8][10][11][12] | Railway station |
Pickfords/National Freight Corporation | Road transport | 1948 - 1985 | Kidderminster goods shed, now the SVRSevern Valley Railway carriage works. |
Bridgnorth
- Thomas Whitefoot, refreshment rooms. 1868. Also at The Crown, and Royal Hotel.[21]
- Browning & Wealey, refreshment rooms. 1880 - 1895.[22][23][24]
- William Grantham, refreshment rooms. 1913.[25]
- South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited (Joseph Harry Ritson named as agent), Railway Wharf. 1871 - 1913.[26][23][24][25]
- Joseph Harry Ritson, corn, cake, seed, salt, manure, coal & lime merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1895.[23][24]
- George James Eveson, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1912.[23][24][25]
- Charles E. Pickering, agricultural implement agent, Railway station. 1913[25].
Berrington
- Caswell & Bowden, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891[23].
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.[27] 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
- ↑ Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society Building Record of Kidderminster Railway Station
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1900
- ↑ Post Office Directory 1870 (Kidderminster Section)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1912
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Kelly's Directory 1916 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 Midland Counties of England Trade Directory 1948-49
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Bennetts's Business Directory for Worcestershire, Kidderminster section 1905
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Kelly's Directory 1921 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 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
- ↑ Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
- ↑ Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1891
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire, 1895
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913
- ↑ Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871
- ↑ A History of UK Insurance, Swiss Re, 2013