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|data-sort-value="Co-operative"|Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. || || 1936 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station Drive | |data-sort-value="Co-operative"|Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. || || 1936 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station Drive | ||
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− | |data-sort-value="Smith"|W. H. Smith & Son || Booksellers & news agents || | + | |data-sort-value="Smith"|W. H. Smith & Son || Booksellers & news agents || 1861 - 1905 || <ref>SVR News 94, article by David Wilcock</ref> || The bookstall closed in 1905 after the GWR demanded a rent increase. A shop opened on Comberton Hill the following year. |
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|data-sort-value="Wyman"|Wyman & Sons Limited || News agents|| 1912 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1916"/><ref name="Kellys1936">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KKjFjKSzAa9_XQnL2HeRNwZ-QsaPkqvn/view Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section]</ref><ref name="mid1948"/> || Railway station | |data-sort-value="Wyman"|Wyman & Sons Limited || News agents|| 1912 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1916"/><ref name="Kellys1936">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KKjFjKSzAa9_XQnL2HeRNwZ-QsaPkqvn/view Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section]</ref><ref name="mid1948"/> || Railway station | ||
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Revision as of 14:19, 17 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.[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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Andrew Hatton | Refreshment rooms | 1876 - 1879 | [1][3] | ||
William Thomas Martin | Refreshment rooms | 1892 - 1900 | [4][2][5] | ||
Thomas Bantock | Goods agent | 1870 | [6] | ||
George Feror Green | Moulding sand merchant | 1876 - 1879 | [1][3] | Railway yard | |
Benjamin Beach | Coal agent | 1876 - 1900 | [1][4][2][5] | Railway station | |
South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited | Coal merchant | 1876 – 1936 | [1][3][7][8][9][10][11] | Railway station (Benjamin Beach named as agent 1879, see separate entry) | |
Henry Barrett | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1914 | [4][2][5][12][7][8][13] | Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[14] | |
George Bayley | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1921 | [4][2][5][7][9][13] | Railway station | |
Alfred Davis | Coal merchant | 1892 - 1948 | [4][2][5][7][8][9][13][15][10][11] | Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[14] | |
John & Alfred Findon | Coal merchant | 1896 - 1905 | [2][12] | Railway station yard. Listed as John & Alfred Findon in 1896 and as A. Findon in 1905 | |
Thomas Tandy | Coal merchant | 1896 - 1900 | [2][5] | Railway station yard | |
Pearson & Co. | Coal merchant | 1900 - 1948 | [5][7][11] | Station yard | |
B. Pearson & Co. | Builders merchant | 1914 - 1936 | [8][10] | Station yard | |
R. Woodward and Co. | Coal merchant | 1905 | [12] | Station Wharf | |
AustinJohn Austin GRA, renowned Bridgnorth-based railway artist and Fellow of The Guild of Railway Artists Brothers | Coal merchants | 1912 - 1948 | [7][15][10][11] | Station yard | |
Albert E. Bayley | Isinglass importer | 1912 - 1936 | [7][10] | Station approach | |
Alfred Howell | Coal merchant | 1912 - 1936 | [7][10] | ||
George Summers | Coal merchant | 1912 | [7] | Station yard | |
W. C. Caswell | Coal merchant | 1933 | [15] | Station yard | |
The Economic Coal Co. | Coal merchant | 1933 | [15] | Station yard | |
W. Field | Sand merchant | 1933 | [15] | Station yard | |
William Bowen & Son | Coal merchant | 1936 | [10] | Station Drive | |
A. E. Bayley | Brewer | 1933 - 1936 | [15][10] | Station approach | |
Samuel P. Hunt | Goods agent | 1900 | [5] | ||
Lunt Bros | Coal merchant | 1936 - 1948 | [10][11] | Station drive | |
Thomas. A. Winwood | Coal & coke merchant | 1936 - 1948 | [10][11] | Station Drive | |
Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. | 1936 | [10] | Station Drive | ||
W. H. Smith & Son | Booksellers & news agents | 1861 - 1905 | [16] | 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 | [7][9][10][11] | Railway station |
Bridgnorth
- Thomas Whitefoot, refreshment rooms. 1868. Also at The Crown, and Royal Hotel.[17]
- Browning & Wealey, refreshment rooms. 1880 - 1895.[18][19][20]
- William Grantham, refreshment rooms. 1913.[21]
- South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited (Joseph Harry Ritson named as agent), Railway Wharf. 1871 - 1913.[22][19][20][21]
- Joseph Harry Ritson, corn, cake, seed, salt, manure, coal & lime merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1895.[19][20]
- George James Eveson, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1912.[19][20][21]
- Charles E. Pickering, agricultural implement agent, Railway station. 1913[21].
Berrington
- Caswell & Bowden, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891[19].
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.[23] 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]
- 1879, Stourport, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd.[1]
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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1900
- ↑ Post Office Directory 1870 (Kidderminster Section)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1912
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Kelly's Directory 1916 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Midland Counties of England Trade Directory 1948-49
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Bennetts's Business Directory for Worcestershire, Kidderminster section 1905
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Kelly's Directory 1921 Kidderminster Section
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Cope's Directory & Buyers Guide for Worcestershire Kidderminster section
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1891
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire, 1895
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913
- ↑ Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871
- ↑ A History of UK Insurance, Swiss Re, 2013