No Other Company Like Ours ; Since the High Days of the British Empire, a Liverpool Firm has Been Making the Goods for Churches and the Clergy. Now They Are Preparing for the Easter Rush. David Charters Reports David Charters

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THEY dress the men and women of God and they fill the bottles with holy wine to sustain the flow of souls into heaven, while down here on earth they pad the hassocks with a layer of foam rubber to comfort the knees of the faithful.

There is not a parade like this in any other factory in the UK. You can bow beneath the Last Supper or let your fingers linger on the staff of an ancient cross, held by devotees of Jesus when the sandals of friars still slapped the mud.

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No Other Company Like Ours ; Since the High Days of the British Empire, a Liverpool Firm has Been Making the Goods for Churches and the Clergy. Now They Are Preparing for the Easter Rush. David Charters Reports David Charters

But if your eye is for fashion, you could admire the exquisite lacework on a surplice being shaped for a female vicar. Only a few yards away, thousands of wicks are swaying to the dance of a carousel as they are dipped, one by one, into molten wax, as part of the process which will turn them into candles.

And we are talking here of candles from the humblest to the highest, from those which glow on table...

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