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(Stub article - work Several coal merchants and other businesses had offices or depots at SVR stations. This list also includes goods agents and independently run refreshment rooms.<br>Dates given are earliest and latest known references. Businesses may have been in progress)operation before and after those dates.

Several businesses==Hartlebury==*Miss M. A. Allard, refreshment rooms. 1879.<ref name="littlebury1879">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/112368 Littlebury's Directory & Gazetteer of Worcester & District, 1879]</ref>*South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited, Railway station. 1879<ref name="littlebury1879"/>. ==Stourport==*[[Thomas Bantock]], Goods Agent. 1879 to at least 1940.<ref name="littlebury1879"/>*William Boycott, coal merchant, Railway wharf. 1879.<ref name="littlebury1879"/>*Thomas William Thomson, coal merchant, agent for Bantock & Co., general carriers, Railway wharf. 1879.<ref name="littlebury1879"/>*John William Powell, coal merchant, Railway station. 1896.<ref name="Kellys1896"/> Powell was trading as a coal and coke merchant from York Street from 1855 with a later building from 1901, The Old Ticket Office, forming part of Stourport Heritage Rooms.<ref>[https://stourporttown.co.uk/attraction/stourport-heritage-rooms/ Stourport Heritage Rooms webpage]</ref> Also owned Private Owner wagons. ==Bewdley==*Neri (Levi) Wooldridge, principally coal and grain merchantslime merchant, Wribbenhall; depot at Railway station. 1879.<ref name="littlebury1879"/>*Elizabeth Wooldridge, coal & salt merchant, Wribbenhall. 1899.<ref>[https://www.parishmouse.co.uk/worcestershire-directories/bewdley-bennetts-business-directory-1899/ Bewdley Bennett's Business Directory 1899]</ref> 1891 and 1901 census returns suggest Levi moved out prior to 1891 and later retired, had and Elizabeth continued the business with their sons George (coal merchant) and Charles<ref>[https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=294257.0 RootsChat.com forum] (Retrieved 22 May 2021)</ref>. ==Kidderminster==[[File:Kidderminster coal yard.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The offices or depots at SVR stationsof Pearson & Cº and J. & A. Findon in Kidderminster coal yard]] {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"! Trader !! Business !! Earliest and latest known references !! Reference !! Notes|-|data-sort-value="Done"| Mr. Done || Refreshment rooms || 1863|| <ref name="KDAHS">[https://drive.google. This list also includes goods agents com/file/d/0B2eAFhE-m0yheVp4QUw1cGN3aVk/edit Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society Building Record of Kidderminster Railway Station]</ref> || Occupied the first and independently run second-class refreshment rooms[[Kidderminster mainline station# Kidderminster mainline station history|destroyed by fire in 1863]]|-|data-sort-value="Hatton"| Andrew Hatton || Refreshment rooms || 1869 - 1879 || <ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001785/18691113/042/0001 Kidderminster Times and Advertiser for Bewdley & Stourport - Saturday 13 November 1869 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref><ref name="littlebury1879"/> |||-|data-sort-value="Martin"|William Thomas Martin || Refreshment rooms || 1892 - 1900 || <ref name="Kellys1892">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218282 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892]</ref><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> |||-|data-sort-value="Bantock"|[[Thomas Bantock]] || Goods agent || 1870 - 1953 || <ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/196OUxXCx4mVcUTMzl6kRFKcsxJ4lSCaB/view Post Office Directory 1870 (Kidderminster Section)]</ref> || Thomas Bantock expanded his cartage agreements with the GWR to include most of the Black Country goods yards including Bewdley, Kidderminster and Stourport.|-|data-sort-value="Green"|George Ferrer Green || Timber dealer and Iron and Worcester moulding sand merchant || 1871 - 1879 ||<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000394/18711202/054/0003 Worcester Herald - Saturday 02 December 1871]</ref><ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18750306/005/0003 Worcester Journal Saturday 6 March 1875 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref> ||Railway yard. Also at Upper Mitton, Stourport and at premises in Hartlebury.<ref name="PO1876">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/112384 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876]</ref>. Business liquidated in 1865 and 1875, although still listed in a trade directory 1879<ref name="littlebury1879"/>|-|data-sort-value="Beach"|Benjamin Beach || Coal agent || 1876 - 1900 || <ref name="littlebury1879"/><ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> || Railway station. Agent for ''South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited'' - see separate entry|-|data-sort-value="South"|South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited || Coal merchant || 1876 – 1936 || <ref name="littlebury1879"/><ref name="PO1876"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Bennetts1914"/><ref name="Kellys1916"/><br><ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Railway station (''Benjamin Beach'' named as agent 1879, see separate entry). Company based at Worcester.<ref>[https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/7760382.kings-of-coal-still-reign-after-150-years/ Worcester News, 16 May 2001] (Retrieved 21 May 2021)</ref> Also owned Private Owner wagons.<ref>Turton, Keith, 'Private Owner Wagons: A Third Collection' Lightmoor Press (2004) ISBN:9781899889167, 1899889167, p. 88</ref>|-|data-sort-value="Barrett"|Henry Barrett || Coal merchant || 1892 - 1914||<ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/8885 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1896]</ref><ref name="Kellys1900">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/278597 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1900]</ref><ref name="Bennetts1905"/><ref name="Kellys1912">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/64222 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1912]</ref><br><ref name="Bennetts1914"/><ref name="Kellys1921"/>|| Railway station.Also owned Private Owner wagons<ref name="Shuttle1903"/>|-|data-sort-value="Bayley"|George Bayley || Coal merchant|| 1889 - 1921 || <ref name "Broadfield 1889">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Gph4m-_M_XV2JiXzFPT2lBN2c/view?resourcekey=0-MLYFofYpZ6MpCz2a39tBnQ Broadfield Guide to Kidderminster 1889]</ref><ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1916">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X51u_4qtyR6kDYWIdv_CRzHYGSjWydtM/view Kelly's Directory 1916 Kidderminster Section]</ref><br><ref name="Kellys1921">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rcWHECZ0l1Kvjm0s3uMLMUV0_j5LMd2U/view Kelly's Directory 1921 Kidderminster Section]</ref> || Railway station|-|data-sort-value="Davis"|Alfred Davis || Coal merchant || 1886 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Bennetts1914"/><br><ref name="Kellys1916"/><ref name="Kellys1921"/><ref name="cope1933"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons<ref name="Shuttle1903">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6Ru_VhQHC_z9xjRLwPs9lT093hP1buk/view?usp=sharing Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903]</ref><ref name="Shuttle1903"/>|-|data-sort-value="Findon"|John & Alfred Findon || Coal merchant|| 1896 - 1905 || <ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Bennetts1905"/> || Railway station yard. Listed as John & Alfred Findon in 1896 and as A. Findon in 1905|-|data-sort-value="Tandy"|Thomas Tandy || Coal merchant || 1896 - 1900 || <ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> || Railway station yard|-|data-sort-value="Pearson"|Pearson & Co. || Coal merchant || 1900 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Station yard. Possible connection to ''B. Pearson & Co.'' (see separate entry). Arthur B. Pearson was fined during World War I for delivering an underweight load of coal, which he claimed resulted from a shortage of adult labour following conscription.<ref>Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society, ''Great War Britain Kidderminster: Remembering 1914-18'', The dates refer History Press, 2014 via [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DayOBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT150&lpg=PT150&dq=Pearson+AND+coal+AND+%22Kidderminster%22&source=bl&ots=uOC7olT5Q5&sig=ACfU3U1naGBglzLn2mquBmhbTyqbchRsSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiX27PV7tjwAhUr8-AKHRP3CegQ6AEwBnoECAUQAw#v=onepage&q=Pearson%20AND%20coal%20AND%20%22Kidderminster%22&f=false Google Books] (Retrieved 20 May 2021)</ref>|-|data-sort-value="Pearson"|B. Pearson & Co. || Builders merchant || 1914 - 1936 || <ref name="Bennetts1914"> [http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/339968 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914]</ref><ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station yard. Possible connection to ''Pearson & Co.'' (see separate entry).|-|data-sort-value="Woodward"|R. Woodward and Co. || Coal merchant || 1905 || <ref name="Bennetts1905">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m2_UEW5jLiB8nj4z7n1CJZePJIkxnbqN/view Bennetts's Business Directory for Worcestershire, Kidderminster section 1905]</ref> ||Station Wharf|-|data-sort-value="Austin"|Austin Brothers || Coal merchants || 1912 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="cope1933"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BH3sPghx0qvnwzGwgqIDoolVZiKnNblx/view Midland Counties of England Trade Directory 1948-49]</ref> || Station yard|-|data-sort-value="Bayley"|Albert E. Bayley || Isinglass importer || 1912 - 1936 || <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station approach. See separate entry for ''A. E. Bayley'', brewer: isinglass is used in brewing.|-|data-sort-value="Howell"|Alfred Howell || Coal merchant || 1912 - 1936 || <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/> || 28 Chester Rd. & Station yard|-|data-sort-value="Summers"|George Summers || Coal merchant || 1912 || <ref name="Kellys1912"/> || Station yard|-|data-sort-value="Caswell"|W. C. Caswell || Coal merchant || 1933 || <ref name="cope1933"/> || Station yard|-|data-sort-value="Economic"|The Economic Coal Co.|| Coal merchant || 1933 || <ref name="cope1933"/> || Station yard. Also owned Private Owner wagons.<ref>[https://peco-uk.com/products/economic-coal-7-plank-wagon Peco]</ref> Several railway model websites have the earliest same text, of unknown provenance: "The Economic Coal Company were a relatively unknown coal merchants from Kidderminster, who bought their wagons in 1910, but continued to trade until 1966, when it was wound up." In circa 1913 they also seemingly used a canal wharf in [[Wolverhampton]].<ref>[http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/OtherTrades/BCN/CHtoBroadStBasin.htm Wolverhampton History and latest known referencesHeritage website] (Retrieved 19 May 2021)</ref>|-|data-sort-value="Field"|W. Field || Sand merchant|| 1933 || <ref name="cope1933"/> || Station yard|-|data-sort-value="Bowen"|William Bowen & Son || Coal merchant || 1936 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/> ||Station Drive|-|data-sort-value="Bayley"|A. E. Bayley || Brewer|| 1933 - 1936 || <ref name="cope1933">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIfJIIudNRgqdbJwO_dA0K4E9kNSFFTn/view Cope's Directory & Buyers Guide for Worcestershire Kidderminster section]</ref><ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station approach. See separate entry for ''Albert E. Bayley'', isinglass importer: isinglass is used in brewing.|-|data-sort-value="Hunt"|Samuel P. Hunt || Goods agent || 1892 - 1900 || <ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> |||-|data-sort-value="Lunt"|Lunt Bros || Coal merchant || 1936 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Station drive|-|data-sort-value="Winwood"|Thomas. A. Winwood || Coal & coke merchant|| 1936 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Station Drive|-|data-sort-value="Co-operative"|Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. || || 1936 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/> || Station Drive|-|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.|-|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="Pickfords"|Pickfords/National Freight Corporation || Road transport || 1948 - 1985 || || [[Carriage_Repair_Works#Kidderminster_goods_shed_history | Kidderminster goods shed]], now the SVR carriage works.|-|data-sort-value="Charringtons"|Charringtons || Coal merchant || 1996 || <ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition p. 76.</ref> || Vacated the [[Kidderminster#Station_entrance|coal yard]] in 1996, at which time [[GWR 57976 Covered Goods Van (body only)|GWR 57976]] became SVR property.|-|}

*Thomas Whitefoot, refreshment rooms. 1868. Also at The Crown, and Royal Hotel. <ref>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/64242 Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868]</ref>*Browning & Wealey, refreshment rooms. 1880 - 1895.<ref name="Slaters1880>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/64244 Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880.]</ref><ref name="Kellys1891">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218282 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1891]</ref><ref name="Kellys1895">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/8886 Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire, 1895]</ref>*Bookstall. The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway of 1890 mentions a bookstall and refreshment room with no further details. <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YMJRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway (1890) on Google Books]</ref>*William Grantham, refreshment rooms. 1913.<ref name="Kellys1913/>*South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited (Joseph Harry Ritson, named as agent), Railway wharfWharf. 18711866 - 1913.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001961/18660120/009/0001 Bridgnorth Journal and South Shropshire Advertiser. - Saturday 20 January 1866 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref><ref>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218324 Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871]</ref><ref name="Kellys1891"/><ref name="Kellys1895"/><ref name="Kellys1913/>*Joseph Harry Ritson, corn, cake, seed, salt, manure, coal & lime merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1895.<ref name="Kellys1891"/><ref name="Kellys1895"/>*George James Eveson, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1912.<ref name="Kellys1891"/><ref name="Kellys1895"/><ref name="Kellys1913>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/278547 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913]</ref>*Charles E. Pickering, agricultural implement agent, Railway station. 1913.<ref name="Kellys1913/>*[[Tales from the Severn Valley#George_Thorpe.2C_licensee_of_The_Railwayman.27s_Arms|George Thorpe]] (also known as ‘Elias’), refreshment rooms. circa 1965. ==Berrington==*Caswell & Bowden, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891.<ref name="Kellys1891"/> Caswell & Bowden were coal merchants and brokers based in Birmingham. Also owned Private Owner wagons<ref>[https://picclick.co.uk/Caswell-Bowden-Ltd-Coal-Birmingham-POW-wagon-312047357662.html Postcard on eBay] (Retrieved 21 May 2021)</ref>.

==Other==[[File:R Johns railway waggon builder.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1879 Advertisement for R. Johns, Railway Waggon Builder of Station Hill, Kidderminster]][[File:Hampton Loade plan.jpg|thumb|300px|right| GWR plan of Hampton Loade Station showing Mr G.H.Glaze's tramway]]*Richard Johns, railway waggon builder and repairer, general wheelwright and implement maker, Station Hill, Kidderminster. 1879.<ref name=="littlebury1879"/>*George Brown, 'Lime, cement & builders' merchants, sculptors and slating contractors' of Station Hill, Kidderminster had a private owner wagon built by GRC&W in 1903. In 2009 [[Thomas BantockThe Erlestoke Manor Fund]] commissioned a [[Models of the Severn Valley Railway#Special_edition_models|George Brown and Sons limited edition 00 gauge model]]<ref>[https://www.erlestokemanorfund.co.uk/manor-from-heaven/ 'Manor from Heaven' webpage, Goods AgentErlestoke Manor Fund website] (Retrieved 23 May 2021)</ref>. *The GWR plan of Hampton Loade Station shows "Mr G.H.Glaze's tramway", possibly used during site clearance of the old Hampton Loade Forge. More information on Hampton Loade Forge, including a photo of an aerial ropeway used for carrying slag across the river to the station can be found on [http://www.alveleyhistoricalsociety. 1870org/mills--forges.html the Alveley Historical Society web site] ===Insurance agents===The first accident insurance policies were developed in the mid-1800s to cover railway accidents and steam boiler explosions.<ref>A History of UK Insurance, Swiss Re, 2013</ref> Several Station Masters also acted as agents for insurance companies.*1867, Mr J. N. Hunt was listed as an agent for The Railway Passengers Assurance Company at Bridgnorth Station. The stationmaster at that time was Isaac Norris Hunt, so this may be a typo, although if so, it was repeated in several adverts without correction. <ref>[https://drivewww.googlebritishnewspaperarchive.comco.uk/viewer/bl/0001961/file18671019/d048/196OUxXCx4mVcUTMzl6kRFKcsxJ4lSCaB0004 Bridgnorth Journal and South Shropshire Advertiser. - Saturday 19 October 1867 on the British Newspaper Archive.]</view Post Office Directory 1870 ref> *1879, Kidderminster Station Master, John Mayers, was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd., London Assurance Corporation (Kidderminster SectionFire And Life)]and Queen Insurance Company.<ref name="littlebury1879"/>*1879, Bewdley, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd.<ref name="littlebury1879"/> ''Thomas Appleton'' was Station Master at that time.*1879, Stourport, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd.<refname="littlebury1879"/>''(George) James Simms '' was Station Master at that time