Turtles were tool specialists, cutlery manufacturers and furnishing and builders' ironmongers based at Crown Hill Works, and 53, North End, Croydon with a cutlery works in Sheffield at Stanley Works, 51 Backfields.

They were established originally in the 1870s by Thomas Lindsley, a saw manufacturer and  twenty years ago re-established by Louis Henry Turtle, who had previously been connected to a Sheffield manufacturer, Wheatley Brothers, for twenty years when he managed and travelled for one of the leading houses.  The Trade Mark; " L. H. Turtle," granted by the Cutlers' Company (Whitaker's Red Book of Commerce or Who's Who in Business 1914). 

Louis Henry Turtle was born in Chesterfield in 1861 and died at Homefield, 24 Stafford Road, Croydon on 4 October 1940 leaving £10,395 to his wife Kate née Hibberson.  He had married Kate on 4 September 1883 at St Silas, Broomhall.  He appears to have moved to Croydon around 1889 when his Sheffield home, 14 South View Crescent is advertised as being for rent (Sheffield Daily Telegraph 21 September 1891 p2).  The last remaining element of the family business, Turtles Ironmongers of Park Street, Croydon, closed after 111 years in December 2008.