JAMES ADAMS & SON
The name of this firm doesn't spring rapidly to mind for many people, but it is a significant company... Why?
It persists... when small businesses have succumbed.
It produces... the sort of things we easily take for granted, springs for doors, manufactured with pride in their quality.
It employs responsibly... winning an un-coerced, not bribed loyalty.
It is local in positive senses... in an area where national and international giants increasingly predominate and blur unwittingly the useful boundaries of identifiable, well proportioned community.
Out of this company came the idea for this series of windows on the world of work. Its members recognised that 100 years of service was worth commemorating and that a symbol set in the neighbouring parish church could hold a happy tension between justifiable pride in both profit and survival and a commitment to measure service by the kind of humanity, business integrity and contribution to the community, that is affirmed by the Christian faith.
The window draws a bold parallel between the well sprung door that opens up opportunities and access for its users and the power of the love of God, manifest in Jesus, to open up our human condition to new possibilities.
