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|data-sort-value="Done"| Mr. Done || Refreshment rooms || 1863|| <ref name="KDAHS">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2eAFhE-m0yheVp4QUw1cGN3aVk/edit Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society Building Record of Kidderminster Railway Station]</ref> || Occupied the first and second-class refreshment rooms [[Kidderminster mainline station# Kidderminster mainline station history|destroyed by fire in 1863]]
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|data-sort-value="Hatton"| Andrew Hatton || Refreshment rooms || 1876 1869 - 1879 || <ref name="littlebury1879"/><ref name="PO1876">[httphttps://specialcollectionswww.lebritishnewspaperarchive.acco.uk/digitalviewer/collectionbl/p16445coll40001785/id18691113/112384 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876042/0001 Kidderminster Times and Advertiser for Bewdley & Stourport - Saturday 13 November 1869 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref><ref name="littlebury1879"/> ||
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|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.
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|data-sort-value="Green"|George Frederick Ferrer Green || Timber dealer and Iron and worcester Worcester moulding sand merchant || 1876 1871 - 1879 || <ref name="littlebury1879">[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000394/18711202/054/0003 Worcester Herald - Saturday 02 December 1871]</ref><ref name="PO1876">[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, also 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"/>
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|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="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"/>
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|data-sort-value="Bayley"|George Bayley || Coal merchant|| 1892 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
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|data-sort-value="Davis"|Alfred Davis || Coal merchant || 1892 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"/>
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|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="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.
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|data-sort-value="Hunt"|Samuel P. Hunt || Goods agent || 1892 - 1900 || <ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/> ||
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|data-sort-value="Lunt"|Lunt Bros || Coal merchant || 1936 - 1948 || <ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/> || Station drive
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|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.
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|data-sort-value="Ferrer"|George Ferrer Green || Timber dealer || 1875 || <ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18750306/005/0003 Worcester Journal Saturday 6 March 1875 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref> || Also at Upper Mitton, Stourport. Business liquidated 1875
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[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 Wharf. 1866 - 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/>
==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 [[The 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, Erlestoke 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.org/mills--forges.html the Alveley Historical Society web site]
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