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West Ender · 06-04-2006, 20:46

I was very lucky because my dad was an optician and he also made perspex spectacle frames. I started wearing glasses, for distance, at the age of 13 and this was a great opportunity for dad to make frames for the younger teenager and I used to "model" them. I'd have a new pair about once a month and they were every style and colour (Edna Everidge style was very IN). I remember a teacher at Paddock House saying to me, one day, "Must you wear bright green glasses, dear?" By the time I was 16 I settled for square black ones like Nana Mouskouri.

The funny thing was that by the late 1960s the round metal frames that the NHS had supplied were all the rage, thanks to John Lennon, only by then they cost a fortune 'cause the NHS didn't do that style any more.

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Re: National Health Specs! I was very lucky because my dad was an optician and he also made perspex spectacle frames. I started wearing glasses, for distance, at the age of 13 and this was a great opportunity for dad to make frames for the younger teenager and I used to "model" them. I'd have a new pair about once a month and they were every style and colour (Edna Everidge style was very IN). I remember a teacher at Paddock House saying to me, one day, "Must you wear bright green glasses, dear?" By the time I was 16 I settled for square black ones like Nana Mouskouri. The funny thing was that by the late 1960s the round metal frames that the NHS had supplied were all the rage, thanks to John Lennon, only by then they cost a fortune 'cause the NHS didn't do that style any more. __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.