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==Business history==
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".<ref>County Express; Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, and Dudley News, 6 April 1867 in the British Newspaper Archive</ref> Josiah P. Harvey of Oxford Street was listed in the Kidderminster Poll Book 1868.<ref>[https://www.parishmouse.co.uk/worcestershire/kidderminster-poll-book-1868/ Kidderminster Poll Book 1868] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref> A Mr. Josiah Peart Harvey was established a corn merchant by 1880 and gave land in Kidderminster for Church Street Baptist Church to be built.<ref>[https://www.miltonhallbaptistchurch.co.uk/churchhistory.htm Milton Hall Baptist Church, Church history] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref> An advertisement dates the Limited Company business back at least as far as 1916.<ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4121947/4121951 Abergavenny Chronicle, 20 October 1916 via The National Library of Wales] (Retrieved 12 September 2016)</ref>
A [https://www.ebay.it/itm/1928-J-P-Harvey-Co-Corn-Miller-Kidderminster-Invoice/203078732747?hash=item2f486f8bcb:g:VDcAAOSw-zdfOQ1q 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".<ref>[https://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/8786146.top-sprout-pickers-met-at-dawn-to-see-who-was-best-in-their-field/ Evesham Journal, 13 January 2011] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref> A 1964 receipt still gives the address of the mill as the Railway Station, Kidderminster although J.P. Harvey (Wholesale Grain) Limited's registered address was 'P.O. Box 12, Station Mills, Kidderminster".
