Echoes of the Past: Frame buying in the 1960s

This week’s Echoes of the Past looks at the April 2 edition of Optician from 1965. Around the time the issue went to press, the Greater London Council came into power, replacing the London County Council and greatly expanded the metropolitan area of the city.

Author of the ‘Frame-wise and otherwise’ article, WW Linnell Fearn, believed that when it came to spectacles frames, opticians fell into three groups – those who viewed them as a device to suspend lenses from, those who thought they were things of beauty and those who viewed them as something they had to dispense in fair quantity to make a living.