A long traditional family business which has been working with timber along Martley Hillside which continues vigorously to this day. At present Philip and Rachel Brooke run the very busy timber yard manufacturing almost anything to do with timber, Rachels Great Great grandfather Williams was a wheelwright in Abberley who specialized in making long ladders for fruit pickers then he moved to Martley and worked for the Earl of Dudley on the Great witley estate, making gates and doing all the woodwork repairs, when the Dudleys sold up the estate he started business on his own which is when it all started.

Bob Williams then took over the business in 1936 and started to make high quality gates for which he became famous throughout the county, and started to buy in and sell round timber supplying pear wood to Waterford glass in Southern Ireland to purify glass until the decline of fruit farming in the area had declined and the supply of old pear trees had finally run out.

Rachels Father Andrew along with his Wife Barbara expanded the business along Martley Hillside, employing local men from within and around the village, setting up a working sawmill to supply the woodworking factory along side, which is where all the manufacturing is done today, a very busy small sawmill which at one time use to to cut Walnut wood used for making gun stocks, Elm has been used by Ercol for furniture making, when the dreaded Dutch Elm disease struck, Andrew bought all the elm on the County council property and was responsible for the felling, clearing and murchanting of the majority of elm felled in Worcestershire at that time, various kinds of timber have been purchased over major estates in the county, not only did they fell timber but also own woodland in Wales, where 58,000 trees have been planted to mature into beech and conifer.

With the postwar increase in home ownership, and moving with the times Andrew and Barbara began to manufacture and sell fencing panels, Sheds, Greenhouses and Conservatorys not to forget the demand in gates, and logs for open fires, English oak was big on the market for restoration work