DO manager marks 25 years

Mr Hardy started in June 1976 as a trainee dispensing optician at Haywards Heath before moving to Batemans in Bracknell to finish his training.
After qualifying he transferred to the Crawley practice where he worked for a few years before taking the position of mobile dispensing optician for Surrey and Hampshire. Nine years later he returned to the Crawley practice and became a manager one year later.
Mr Hardy was joined at a presentation to mark the occasion by his wife Karen and treated to a celebratory lunch at the Withies Inn near Guildford.