Chris Bennett: Optician stays true to its roots

I doubt many people take any notice of the little numbers above headline in this leader column but they tell many tales.

To the right is the number 6,500. This represents the number of weekly issues Optician has published since its founding in 1891. It’s amazing that a young journalist, Charles Hyatt-Woolf, dreamt up the idea of a weekly magazine for opticians following an enquiry from a reader. On April 2 1891 the magazine appeared for the first time to inform and educate the new breed of opticians popping up around Victorian Britain. Apart from one issue in 1941, during the dark days of World War II, Optician has appeared every week since.