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[[File:Kidderminster Goods Yard map 1938OS_Kidderminster_Top_Yard_1938.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Map showing the location of the corn milland private sidings]]

[[File:Kidderminster cartage garage 1928.JPG|thumb|300px|right| Plan of kidderminster Goods Yard showing the location of 'Messrs. Harvey's Shed']]'''J . P . Harvey & Co Ltd''' operated a corn mill adjacent to [[Kidderminster mainline station#Goods yard|Kidderminster Goods Yard]]. A 1936 GWR Worcester Area Traffic Research Report discusses negotiations with "J. & P. Harvey" and Worcester Farmers Ltd. and mentions Harvey & Co's private siding at Kidderminster. The company employed a shunting horse which was used to move wagons around the private siding.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 83.</ref>

The ==J.P. Harvey's private sidings==A 1928 GWR plan shows 'Messrs. Harvey's Shed' and the 1938 OS map shows the corn mill and the fence separating it from the goods yard, and its position in relation to the GWR goods sheds, which now serve as [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]] and the [[Carriage Repair Works]]. No trace The layout of the corn mill remainsprivate sidings can also be seen.<ref group="note">The map is a composite of two OS 25in maps, both revised and published circa 1938. It is not clear if the apparent slight discontinuity in the sidings at the boundary of the location now being occupied by map is simply due to printing differences or if some change in the rear building and car park layout of Kidderminster Magistrates Court off Comberton PlaceHarvey's sidings had taken place around that time.</ref>

Just before the corn mill, a small siding turns towards what appears to be a sand or gravel pit. This may be [[J.H.Smith|J.H. Smith's siding]] which was listed in the RCH 1938 Handbook of Stations as having a business at Kidderminster accessed via J.P. Harvey's siding. In 1943 two additional sidings were added in the area marked "310 1.624". One was a third siding for Harveys adjacent to the two shown on the map, and the other next to it was the [[Summerfield Siding]]. The company employed a shunting horse which was used to move wagons around the private siding.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 83.</ref> Between 1973 and 1977, [[Wagons formerly resident on the SVR|ex J.P.Harvey 'GRANO' grain hopper van 42239]] was resident on the SVR.

*Josiah Peart Harvey, the of Wotton Underedge (sic), Gloucestershire, was described as a miller and grocer in an 1858 indenture.<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22191/page/4483/data.pdf London Gazette, 15 October 19581858] (Retrieved 13 September 2020)</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>

*[[Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway]]<br>*[[Wagons formerly resident on the SVR]] ==Notes==<references group="note"/>