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*Josiah P. Harvey of Oxford Street was listed in the Kidderminster Poll Book 1868.<ref>[https://www.parishmouse.co.uk/worcestershire/kidderminster-poll-book-1868/ Kidderminster Poll Book 1868] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref>
*An 1876 directory refers to "corn, seed, salt & oilcake merchant, & dealer in guano & other manures".<ref>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/129308/rec/5 University of Leicester, 'Post Office Directory of Worcestershire, 1876', p. 996]</ref>
*A Mr. Josiah Peart Harvey was established as a corn merchant by 1880 and gave land in Kidderminster for Church Street Baptist Church to be built.<ref>[https://www.miltonhallbaptistchurch.co.uk/churchhistory.htm Milton Hall Baptist Church, Church history] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref> He was a noted temperance advocate and had given up the former maltsters' business.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rwo_AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA15&ots=jKkFho5e10&dq=josiah%20Peart%20Harvey&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=josiah%20Peart%20Harvey&f=false Winskill, Paul Turner, 'Temperance Standard Bearers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical and Statistical Temperance Dictionary' (1898) via Google Books, p. 15]</ref> *In 1891 Kidderminster Town Council condemned 418 sacks of flour after it was found that Harvey were storing them in a 'shed in the railway yard' that they were also using for artificial fertiliser manufacture. The sacks had been placed there temporarily 'owing to their putting new machinery into the mill'.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18910509/006/0002 Worcester Journal - Saturday 9 May 1891 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*An advertisement dates the Limited Company business back at least as far as 1916.<ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4121947/4121951 Abergavenny Chronicle, 20 October 1916 via The National Library of Wales] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref>
*A 1928 invoice shows a flour mill in Mill Street, offices and warehouse in Oxford Street, and corn mills and manure works at the Railway Station, Kidderminster. A 1936 contemporary report refers to "J P Harvey & Co, of Kidderminster and Evesham".<ref>[https://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/8786146.top-sprout-pickers-met-at-dawn-to-see-who-was-best-in-their-field/ Evesham Journal, 13 January 2011] (Retrieved 12 September 2020)</ref> J.P. Harvey (Wholesale Grain) Limited's registered address was 'P.O. Box 12, Station Mills, Kidderminster".