Chandlery

We saved this visit for the rainy day, to the chandlers Charles Farris Ltd who make a wide range of high quality church candles.
We were able to watch them being set up on this frame, the cut lengths of wick (held over the shoulder of the worker here) attached to a series of clips on smaller rotating frames. When the required wicks are in place they are lowered into the bath of molten wax. The dipping procedure (a process called casting) for every 1-inch diameter candle must be dipped 32 times and allowed to cool and set between each cast; the biggest ones in the photo might have been cast around 100 times.

The extra photo is of another Packhorse Bridge, near Fifehead Neville in Dorset, but a rather odd one as the sides are straight with triangular arches - even the keystones are triangles. It is certainly mediaeval in age.
Next to the bridge is a ford, the river Divelish now culverted below a concrete surface, such that only in flood would water run over the top, locally known as an 'Irish Bridge'. It would appear that this is not uncommon, as depth markers either side register up to six feet.