This firm can be traced to Pendleton & Walker, electro-platers and gilders, Orchard Street.  It was listed in 1862, with Edwin Pendleton (c.1827-1893) and Albert Walker, Lansdowne Road, as partners.  Walker was a clerk and shorthand writer.  Pendleton had been born in Birmingham, but by 1851 lived with his widowed mother, Elizabeth, at Newport, Isle of Wight.  Edwin was a hardware dealer.   In 1861, he was living with his wife, Harriet, in Attercliffe.   Pendleton’s partnership with Albert Walker ended after only a few years – possibly precipitated by the death of Albert’s son in 1869, followed by his wife, Caroline, on 27 November 1871, aged 26.  By 1871, Pendleton had joined forces with John Merrill Jun., who was the son of John Merrill, horn dealer.  Pendleton & Merrill was based in Holly Street and employed a woman and a boy.  By 1881, the workforce had grown to three men, four women, and four girls.  In 1891, Pendleton & Merrill was dissolved.  Edwin took as his next partner, Frank Horatio Dix (1856-1925), who was his stepson.  The firm remained in Holly Street.

Edwin Pendleton died at Dover Road on 12 January 1893, aged 66, leaving £2,437.  He was buried in Norton cemetery.  Pendleton & Dix, electro-platers, continued under Frank Horatio Dix, who relocated to Carver Street in about 1914.  He died on 27 March 1925, leaving £5,397.  His son, Francis William Peirce Dix, took charge of the business, which in 1934 became a private limited company with £1,000 capital.  F. W. P. Dix and F. C. Young were the directors.  The company remained in Carver Street after the Second World War and was a member of the Master Silversmiths’ Association.  It was liquidated in 1984