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Gloucestershire's greatest exports

Mark Cummings | 18:19 UK time, Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Les Timms carves the Royal Coat of Arms into the Speaker's chairAll week we've been exploring the county's most impressive legacy.

Did you know money made by Dick Wittington in the fourteen hundreds is still be used today for local charities?

Willie Thorne joined us to extol the virtue of the cloth made for snooker tables. Stroud based Millikens are the producer of this quality product.

Where would we have been without fortified steel? Robert Forester Mushet from Coleford invented a type of steel which was stronger than the steel of the day.

This Thursday we celebrate H.H. Martyn and Co... a company of art craftsmen who produced the best in wood, stone and marble sculpture, furniture and cabinet making.

They were responsible for the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons, furnishing for the Titanic and palace doors eventually owned by Saddam Hussein! Tune in for some great stories from the company Gloucestershire can be truly proud of.

The photograph is of Les Timms carving a section of the Royal Coat of Arms for the Speaker's chair.

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