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[[File:OS_Kidderminster_Top_Yard_1938.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Map showing the location of the corn mill and private sidings]]
[[File:EPW059860.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Aerial view of Kidderminster Station and Yard showing J.P.Harvey's corn mill and the fence separating it from the main goods yard.]]
[[File:Kidderminster cartage garage 1928.JPG|thumb|300px|right| Plan of kidderminster Goods Yard showing the location of 'Messrs. Harvey's Shed']]
'''J. P. Harvey & Co Ltd''' operated a corn mill adjacent to [[Kidderminster mainline station#Goods yard|Kidderminster Goods Yard]]. A 1936 GWR Worcester Area Traffic Research Report discusses negotiations with "J. & P. Harvey" and Worcester Farmers Ltd. and mentions Harvey & Co's private siding at Kidderminster.
==J.P. Harvey's private sidings==
Just before the corn mill, a small siding turns towards what appears to be a sand or gravel pit. This may be [[J.H.Smith|J.H. Smith's siding]] which was listed in the RCH 1938 Handbook of Stations as having a business at Kidderminster accessed via J.P. Harvey's siding.
*In 1891 Kidderminster Town Council condemned 418 sacks of flour after it was found that Harvey were storing them in a 'shed in the railway yard' that they were also using for artificial fertiliser manufacture. The sacks had been placed there temporarily 'owing to their putting new machinery into the mill'.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18910509/006/0002 Worcester Journal - Saturday 9 May 1891 on the British Newspaper Archive]</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 2020)</ref>
*A 1928 GWR plan shows 'Messrs. Harvey's Shed' next to the cattle pens and the goods shed that is now [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]]
*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".<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> J.P. Harvey (Wholesale Grain) Limited's registered address was 'P.O. Box 12, Station Mills, Kidderminster".
* A 1937 GWR Traffic Research Committee report notes that due to "an active road transport policy being pursued" by J.P.Harvey, "Payments to GWR dropped from £8755 in 1931 to £4912 in 1936, notwithstanding extension of business".<ref>Minutes of meeting of the GWR Worcester Division Traffic Research Committee, held by The National Archive</ref>
