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[[File:Kidderminster Goods Yard map 1938.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Map showing the location of the corn mill]]
[[File:JPHarvey receipt.jpg|thumb|300px|right|J.P. Harvey receipt invoice dated 19641928]]
'''J P Harvey & Co Ltd''' operated a corn mill adjacent to [[The development of Kidderminster Town Station|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.
Mr. J. P. Harvey was described as a corn dealer by 1867 in a report of a theft by one Harvey Broomfield, a boy of "very bad character".<ref>County Express; Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, and Dudley News, 6 April 1867 in the British Newspaper Archive</ref> 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> A Mr. Josiah Peart Harvey was established 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> 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 2016)</ref>
A [https://www.ebay.it/itm/1928-J-P-Harvey-Co-Corn-Miller-Kidderminster-Invoice/203078732747?hash=item2f486f8bcb:g:VDcAAOSw-zdfOQ1q 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> A 1964 receipt still gives the address of the mill as the Railway Station, Kidderminster although J.P. Harvey (Wholesale Grain) Limited's registered address was 'P.O. Box 12, Station Mills, Kidderminster".
Taken together they suggest Station Mill(s) was a form of the address at the station, and continuing operation of the mill on the site for a long period as part of a wider business and long established with other locations.
