What we do

Our Dispensers work from your prescription and take the time with you to explore your options, recommending what best suits your needs. Everyone is different! Depending on your lenses they may also make recommendations regarding your frame choice, from both a practical and an aesthetic point of view. Once you have chosen your frames and lenses they will take a number of highly specific measurements so that they can produce your spectacles and optimise them for you as much as possible.

In-house glazing

We have state-of-the-art glazing machines and keep a bank of coated and uncoated single-vision lenses within a certain range of prescriptions, so we can often glaze your single vision spectacles within the hour. When it comes to more specialised lenses, such as higher prescription or varifocal lenses, these can take a number of weeks to produce. Unlike many Opticians who send your spectacles away to be reglazed, having a laboratory within the premises means we can order your lenses uncut and glaze them here, so we’ll only need to borrow your frame for up to 2 hours.

Rimless capabilities

With rimless frames, the lens itself is drilled into and the sides and bridge of the spectacles are attached. This means the lenses must be made of a special, higher index material, so that they can withstand the pressure of both the drilling and the absence of any protective rim. With no rim however, the possibilities of lens shapes really are endless. Our glazing machines can cut down lenses in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from the traditional to the down-right bizarre. Pop in store to see our rimless sunglasses shaped like Land Rovers!

Repairs and replacements

If your spectacles break, always come in and see us – we have a workshop full of spare components like screws and nosepads that can often get you back in one piece very quickly. Things get a bit trickier when the sides or front of the frame themselves break, but depending on how old they are, we can sometimes get replacement parts from our suppliers, meaning you won’t have to fork out for a whole new frame. Please don’t use super glue on your spectacles! Frames that might have been easily repaired can be left redundant when super glue enters the fine recesses that hold your lenses in place, not to mention if it gets on the lenses. When lenses break or become scratched however, these sadly cannot be fixed as any distortion, removal or addition of material will compromise the prescription, rendering them useless to you.

Bespoke and occupational eyewear

With over 40 years experience in Optics, there isn’t much that can surprise Vince when it comes to niche optical requirements. Over the years he has produced some of the following highly specialised eyewear…

• Safety spectacles with safety certificate
• Prescription vintage flying goggles
• Bifocals with an upper segment for mechanical work under cars
• Snooker glasses
• Prescription skiing goggles
• Prescription diving mask
• Spectacles for applying contact lenses or eye make-up
• Prescription goggles
• Recumbent spectacles