Echoes of the Past: A focus on family

This week’s Echoes of the Past has a family feel to it, with a look at the ‘Like father, like son’ feature on the Burnett Hodd family in the December 5 edition of Optician from 1975.

The Moorgate, London, practice was set up by George William Hodd in 1905 with his partner Mrs Burnett. All children born into the family were given the name Burnett as a middle name.

William was joined by his son Frederick, who worked with him for nearly 20 years and later became a partner in the firm. William Burnett Hodd’s grandson, Nigel, worked at the practice for a short while before managing another branch and eventually took over the specialist contact lens practice at the company’s Devonshire Street practice.