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[[File:FoleyPark1938map.jpg |thumb|300px|right| 1938 Ordnance Survey map showing a sand and gravel pit south of the Beet Sugar Factory]]
Thomas Vale & Sons' siding is listed in the RCH 1938 Handbook of Stations as having a business at Kidderminster accessed via the [[Foley Park sidings | British Sugar Corporation sidings]] at Foley park.
'''Thomas Vale & Sons''' was established in Stourport in 1869<ref>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Vale_and_Sons Thomas Vale & Sons on Grace's Guide]</ref> and still exists today as Thomas Vale Construction.They commenced construction of the sugar factory in 1925, for which a temporary siding was laid.<ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, September 1926</ref>
T. Vale & Sons were listed in Kelly's Directory of 1936 as "gravel merchants, Oldington"<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KKjFjKSzAa9_XQnL2HeRNwZ-QsaPkqvn/view Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire 1936] (Retrieved 4 May 2021)</ref>.