J.P.Harvey's Corn Mill
J P Harvey & Co Ltd operated a corn mill adjacent to Kidderminster Goods Yard. A 1936 GWRGreat Western Railway Worcester Area Traffic Research Report discusses negotiations with "J. & P. Harvey" and Worcester Farmers Ltd. and mentions Harvey & Co's private siding at Kidderminster.
The 1938 map shows the corn mill and the fence separating it from the goods yard, and its position in relation to the GWRGreat Western Railway goods sheds, which now serve as Kidderminster Railway Museum and the Carriage Repair Works. No trace of the corn mill remains.
Between 1973 and 1977, an ex J.P.Harvey 'GRANO' grain hopper van was resident on the SVRSevern Valley Railway.
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Business history
- Josiah Peart Harvey, the of Wotton Underedge (sic), Gloucestershire, was described as a miller and grocer in an 1858 indenture.[1]
- A Mr. J. P. Harvey was described as a corn dealer by 1867 in a report of a theft by one Harvey Broomfield, a boy of "very bad character".[2]
- Josiah P. Harvey of Oxford Street was listed in the Kidderminster Poll Book 1868.[3]
- An 1876 directory refers to "corn, seed, salt & oilcake merchant, & dealer in guano & other manures".[4]
- A Mr. Josiah Peart Harvey was established as a corn merchant by 1880 and gave land in Kidderminster for Church Street Baptist Church to be built.[5] He was a noted temperance advocate and had given up the former maltsters' business.[6]
- An advertisement dates the Limited Company business back at least as far as 1916.[7]
- A 1928 invoice shows a flour mill in Mill Street, offices and warehouse in Oxford Street, and corn mills and manure works at the Railway Station, Kidderminster. A 1936 contemporary report refers to "J P Harvey & Co, of Kidderminster and Evesham".[8] J.P. Harvey (Wholesale Grain) Limited's registered address was 'P.O. Box 12, Station Mills, Kidderminster".
Taken together they suggest Station Mill(s) was a form of the address at the station, and continuing operation of the mill on the site for a long period as part of a wider and long established business in several locations in Kidderminster and elsewhere.
J.P. Harvey invoice dated 1928
See also
Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
Wagons formerly resident on the SVR
References
- ↑ London Gazette, 15 October 1958 (Retrieved 13 September 2020)
- ↑ County Express; Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, and Dudley News, 6 April 1867 in the British Newspaper Archive
- ↑ Kidderminster Poll Book 1868 (Retrieved 12 September 2020)
- ↑ University of Leicester, 'Post Office Directory of Worcestershire, 1876', p. 996
- ↑ Milton Hall Baptist Church, Church history (Retrieved 12 September 2020)
- ↑ Winskill, Paul Turner, 'Temperance Standard Bearers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical and Statistical Temperance Dictionary' (1898) via Google Books, p. 15
- ↑ Abergavenny Chronicle, 20 October 1916 via The National Library of Wales (Retrieved 12 September 2020)
- ↑ Evesham Journal, 13 January 2011 (Retrieved 12 September 2020)
