Businesses located at SVR stations

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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
Mr. Done Refreshment rooms 1863 [3] Occupied the first and second-class refreshment rooms destroyed by fire in 1863
Andrew Hatton Refreshment rooms 1876 - 1879 [1][4]
William Thomas Martin Refreshment rooms 1892 - 1900 [5][2][6]
Thomas Bantock Goods agent 1870 [7]
George Feror Green Moulding sand merchant 1876 - 1879 [1][4] Railway yard
Benjamin Beach Coal agent 1876 - 1900 [1][5][2][6] Railway station. Agent for South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited - see separate entry
South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited Coal merchant 1876 – 1936 [1][4][8][9][10][11][12] Railway station (Benjamin Beach named as agent 1879, see separate entry)
Henry Barrett Coal merchant 1892 - 1914 [5][2][6][13][8][9][14] Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[15]
George Bayley Coal merchant 1892 - 1921 [5][2][6][8][10][14] Railway station
Alfred Davis Coal merchant 1892 - 1948 [5][2][6][8][9][10][14][16][11][12] Railway station. Also owned Private Owner wagons[15]
John & Alfred Findon Coal merchant 1896 - 1905 [2][13] Railway station yard. Listed as John & Alfred Findon in 1896 and as A. Findon in 1905
Thomas Tandy Coal merchant 1896 - 1900 [2][6] Railway station yard
Pearson & Co. Coal merchant 1900 - 1948 [6][8][12] Station yard. Possible connection to B. Pearson & Co. (see separate entry).
B. Pearson & Co. Builders merchant 1914 - 1936 [9][11] Station yard. Possible connection to Pearson & Co. (see separate entry).
R. Woodward and Co. Coal merchant 1905 [13] Station Wharf
AustinJohn Austin GRA, renowned Bridgnorth-based railway artist and Fellow of The Guild of Railway Artists Brothers Coal merchants 1912 - 1948 [8][16][11][12] Station yard
Albert E. Bayley Isinglass importer 1912 - 1936 [8][11] Station approach. See separate entry for A. E. Bayley, brewer: isinglass is used in brewing.
Alfred Howell Coal merchant 1912 - 1936 [8][11]
George Summers Coal merchant 1912 [8] Station yard
W. C. Caswell Coal merchant 1933 [16] Station yard
The Economic Coal Co. Coal merchant 1933 [16] Station yard
W. Field Sand merchant 1933 [16] Station yard
William Bowen & Son Coal merchant 1936 [11] Station Drive
A. E. Bayley Brewer 1933 - 1936 [16][11] Station approach. See separate entry for Albert E. Bayley, isinglass importer: isinglass is used in brewing.
Samuel P. Hunt Goods agent 1900 [6]
Lunt Bros Coal merchant 1936 - 1948 [11][12] Station drive
Thomas. A. Winwood Coal & coke merchant 1936 - 1948 [11][12] Station Drive
Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. 1936 [11] Station Drive
W. H. Smith & Son Booksellers & news agents 1861 - 1905 [17] 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 [8][10][11][12] Railway station
Pickfords/National Freight Corporation Road transport 1948 - 1985 Kidderminster goods shed, now the SVRSevern Valley Railway carriage works.

Bridgnorth

  • Thomas Whitefoot, refreshment rooms. 1868. Also at The Crown, and Royal Hotel.[18]
  • Browning & Wealey, refreshment rooms. 1880 - 1895.[19][20][21]
  • William Grantham, refreshment rooms. 1913.[22]
  • South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited (Joseph Harry Ritson named as agent), Railway Wharf. 1871 - 1913.[23][20][21][22]
  • Joseph Harry Ritson, corn, cake, seed, salt, manure, coal & lime merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1895.[20][21]
  • George James Eveson, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1912.[20][21][22]
  • Charles E. Pickering, agricultural implement agent, Railway station. 1913[22].

Berrington

  • Caswell & Bowden, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891[20].

Other

1879 Advertisement for R. Johns, Railway Waggon Builder of Station Hill, Kidderminster
  • 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.[24] 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] 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.[1] (George) James Simms was Station Master at that time

See also

References

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1896
  3. Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society Building Record of Kidderminster Railway Station
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1900
  7. Post Office Directory 1870 (Kidderminster Section)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1912
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Kelly's Directory 1916 Kidderminster Section
  11. 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 Midland Counties of England Trade Directory 1948-49
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Bennetts's Business Directory for Worcestershire, Kidderminster section 1905
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Kelly's Directory 1921 Kidderminster Section
  15. 15.0 15.1 Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 Cope's Directory & Buyers Guide for Worcestershire Kidderminster section
  17. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 94, article by David Wilcock
  18. Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
  19. Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880.
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1891
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire, 1895
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913
  23. Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871
  24. A History of UK Insurance, Swiss Re, 2013