Resources for all

‘I’ve been trying to get something like this in the UK for the last 15 years,’ says a proud Phil Hall head of ABDO’s National Resource Centre in Birmingham’s Aston. The ‘something’ he is talking about is the Association of British Dispensing Optician’s NRC and the CLO-cum-educator Hall and ABDO members have plenty to be proud of.
Aston has had a long association with optics and the NRC is housed within 11,000sq ft spread over two floors in a five storey block, just a stone’s throw away from the old Dollond & Aitchison Waterlinks HQ. Aston University is also on the NRC’s doorstep but more importantly so is the M6, M42 and the UK’s second city.