Martindale
Brummie babby
I'm the great great grandaughter of Ralph Martindale of Martindale and Company. They were a sword and machete manufacturing company in Birmingham. They are no longer a private company and have moved to Willenhall after being taken over. I understand the site of the Crocodile works is now apartments. Anyway, Ralph lived at York Lodge in Sutton Road Erdington. He put the house up for auction a few of weeks before his death in 1879. I have a description of the house from a newspaper advert but I have seen pictures of some of the mansion houses on Sutton Road but cannot identify York Lodge. Does anybody have a picture of it or can point me in the right direction. I no longer live in Birmingham myself but will travel. Does anybody think Erdington library would have this sort of thing. A lot of libraries now don't carry local history material.
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