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Bottomley Opticians has looked after the eyes of Halifax people for over 75 years ! 🤓😎👓☕️

We pride ourselves on being the only family owned community opticians in Halifax town centre. Because we're not answerable to any shareholders we can invest our time and money exactly where we feel it should be in clinical excellence both in our staff and equipment. We also have the largest range of designer frames on show which include: - Dior, Vanni, Paul&Joe, Country Casuals, Sophia Loren,Marc Jacobs,Lulu Guinness and many more! and then Luxury brands like Lindberg, Silhouette and Tom Davies which can be created with you for you. . For the gents we have the likes of Porsche Design, Lindberg, Tom Davies, Carrera, ,Silhouette, Safilo Design, Superdry, William Morris and Polaroid to name but a few. We offer a good choice of lenses too from world leaders Zeiss, Rodenstock and BBGR. Come down and see us in a no rush, no pressure environment and enjoy Eye care as we see it.

05/11/2026

Just like James Acaster, we’re Faithfuls too. 👀

Years ago, my band, The Tragics, played a gig alongside his band, The Wow Scenario. We swapped CDs. I’ve still got his demo.

Neither of us knew he’d eventually get a mention in an opticians’ social post. Probably for the best.

Here at Bottomleys, we’re faithful to a few things.

Taking our time. Remembering how you like your coffee. Finding glasses that fit properly and make you feel good.

And telling you honestly when a frame isn’t doing you any favours. Even if it’s the expensive one.

We are hiding something, though.

All the glasses.

There aren’t rows of frames on the walls here. You sit down, have a coffee and tell us about yourself. Then we bring out frames chosen with you in mind, from independent makers who care about eyewear as much as we do.

Some you’ll love straight away. Others might earn us a suspicious look across the table.

“Really? Those?”

Go on. Try them. That’s often where the fun starts.

No cloaks. No banishments. Just a proper conversation and people who are bothered about getting it right.

Bottomley Opticians. Faithful to you since 1948.

Book your sit-down styling consultation:
www.bottomleyopticians.co.uk/book-appointment

Halifax: 01422 331031
Lindley: 01484 643692

21/10/2026

Well, here we go again!

The clocks go back this weekend, the evenings get darker and before you know it, you're leaving work feeling like it's the middle of the night.

There is an extra hour in bed, so it's not all bad. 😁

But this time of year can be a bit challenging for your eyes.

That lovely low autumn sunshine that suddenly blinds you when you're driving round a corner. Beautiful to look at, not quite so wonderful when you can't see where you're going!

Then there's driving in the dark. Headlights seem brighter, road signs aren't quite as clear and perhaps you're not as confident behind the wheel as you used to be.

Add central heating, more time looking at screens and the occasional dry, gritty eye, and there's quite a lot going on.

The good news is that many of these things can be helped with the right advice, an up-to-date prescription and lenses that actually suit what you do.

And here's something we believe at Bottomleys.

Your glasses should be so comfortable, and your vision so natural, that you pretty much forget you're wearing them.

They should just work.

If it's been a while since your last eye examination, perhaps it's time to give your eyes a little attention.

And if you like being looked after by people who genuinely care about the details, we might just be your sort of opticians.

The coffee's pretty good too. ☕👓

www.bottomleyopticians.co.uk/book-appointment

19/10/2026

Good with people? Got an eye for style? We should talk.

We're looking for an Eyewear Styling Consultant to join Bottomley Opticians in Halifax.

We're a third-generation family opticians, established in 1948, and we're not quite like most opticians.

No walls covered in hundreds of frames. No rushing people through appointments. Just proper conversations, great coffee and helping people find glasses they genuinely love.

We're looking for someone who's naturally good with people, interested in style and design, organised, dependable and happy to take responsibility.

You'll look after clients, help them choose fabulous eyewear, manage appointments and orders, and eventually take responsibility for running our Halifax practice day to day.

Optical experience would be lovely, but it's not essential. We'll teach you what you need to know. Attitude, initiative and genuine care for people matter much more.

You'll work with wonderful independent eyewear collections, have time to look after clients properly and become an important part of a small family business.

Salary: £27,000+
Hours: Full-time, Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 5.30pm
Location: Halifax, occasional days in Lindley
Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays
Benefits: Workplace pension, staff eyewear discount and free eye tests
Closing date: Wednesday 11 November 2026

Interested? Email your CV and a few lines about yourself to [email protected].

Better at Bottomleys.

08/10/2026

What have your eyes helped you enjoy today?

Someone's smile? The autumn colours on your way to work? A message from someone you love? Or just finding the right end of the cat before you stroked it. 😁

Today is World Sight Day. And while we spend a lot of time talking about glasses, it's what you do with the vision behind them that really matters.

Reading another chapter when you said you were going to sleep. Spotting a friend across a busy café. Watching your grandchildren do something they're ridiculously proud of. Taking in that view you never quite get tired of.

Ordinary things. Until you stop and think about how much they mean.

It's easy to put looking after your eyes somewhere below servicing the car, sorting the boiler and the other 47 things on your list. Consider this a friendly nudge to move them up a bit.

If your eye examination is overdue, make time for it. And when you come in, tell us about your actual day. What you read, where you work, what you enjoy and anything you're finding harder than you used to.

At Bottomleys, we make time for that conversation. Because reading letters on a chart is only part of understanding what you need from your vision.

What's one thing you've loved seeing today? We'd love to know. 👇

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

01/10/2026

"I love those. I just couldn't wear them."

We hear that quite a lot.

And sometimes it's true. But sometimes it means, "I've worn the same sort of glasses for fifteen years and I can't quite imagine myself in anything else."

Fair enough. A new frame can feel surprisingly bold when it's sitting in the middle of your face.

That's why it helps to try things on with somebody who understands your style, your prescription and how the finished glasses will look. We might show you something familiar first. Then something a little different. Then, perhaps, the pair you said you couldn't possibly wear.

No pressure to become a completely new person by Thursday.

But it would be a shame if the glasses you really loved never got a chance because the old ones felt safer.

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

30/09/2026

We're probably the right opticians for you if you like people who really care about the details.

The sort of details you might never think to ask about.

Whether a frame will feel comfortable at the end of a long day. Whether your prescription will make those lenses thicker than you expected. Whether your new glasses will work for what you actually do, rather than what somebody assumed you do.

And whether you still feel like yourself when you look in the mirror.

We like to sit down with you, have a proper conversation and find out what matters to you. There's coffee. There are questions. There may be a frame you'd never have picked up in a million years that turns out to be the one.

We take our time because getting it right matters.

If you've ever wished choosing glasses felt less like picking something off a shelf and more like having somebody in your corner, you might be very happy at Bottomleys.

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

28/09/2026

Have you ever bought a pair of glasses you absolutely loved in the shop, only to find yourself wearing your old ones again a fortnight later?

It happens more often than you'd think.

Perhaps the new ones don't feel quite right after a few hours. Perhaps you liked the idea of them more than you like seeing them on your face every morning. Or perhaps the frame looked fabulous on its own, but your prescription needed a bit more thought than anybody gave it.

That's why, when we help somebody choose glasses, we want to know more than whether they like a particular shape.

What do you do all day? When do you wear your glasses? What do you love about the pair you've got, and what drives you quietly mad? How do you want to feel when you put the new ones on?

And, crucially, will that frame work beautifully with the lenses you need?

You shouldn't have to talk yourself into wearing a pair of glasses you've paid good money for.

You should find yourself reaching for them.

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

26/09/2026

How many times have you pushed your glasses back up your nose today?

You probably couldn't tell me. You've been doing it for so long that your hand just goes up there on its own.

Perhaps they also leave a mark on your nose. Or dig in behind one ear. Or you take them off whenever you can because, although you need them, you don't particularly enjoy wearing them.

People put up with all sorts of little things because they assume that's just what glasses are like.

It really isn't.

A frame needs to fit your face, and the lenses need to work for your prescription and the way you spend your day. Then the finished glasses need adjusting properly. Those details can make the difference between a pair you tolerate and a pair you forget you're wearing.

Until somebody compliments you on them, obviously. Then you're allowed to remember. 😏

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

24/09/2026

If your eyes feel tired after a day at the computer, you probably don't need another clever gadget.

You may just need to look out of the window occasionally.

When we concentrate on a screen, we tend to blink less. That can leave the eyes feeling dry, gritty, tired or slightly blurry by the end of the day. The screen itself isn't usually damaging your eyes. It's more that your eyes have spent hours doing close work without much of a break.

A simple thing to try is the 20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes, look at something around 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. You don't need a tape measure. Just look across the room or out of the window at something in the distance.

While you're there, have a proper blink. Not the tiny half blink we do while answering emails. A full, deliberate blink that allows the tears to spread properly across the eye.

It also helps to keep your screen roughly an arm's length away, reduce reflections and make the text larger instead of leaning towards it like you're trying to climb inside the laptop.

If your eyes regularly feel uncomfortable, don't simply accept it as part of working life. Dry eye, an unsuitable prescription or glasses that aren't designed for your working distance can all make things harder than they need to be.

Your eyes weren't really designed for eight hours of spreadsheets.

To be fair, neither were the rest of us.

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

23/09/2026

"My eyesight seems fine."

We hear this quite a lot.

And it may well be true. You might be able to read the bottom line, spot a road sign from half a mile away and tell whether the person waving at you is waving at you or the person behind you.

But seeing clearly and having healthy eyes aren't quite the same thing.

Some eye conditions can begin without giving you an obvious warning. No pain. No dramatic change. Nothing that makes you think, "I'd better get that checked."

Your brain is also remarkably good at filling in gaps and adapting to gradual changes. Very clever of it, but not always terribly helpful.

That's why a proper eye examination is about far more than asking whether lens one or lens two looks clearer. It's a chance to look carefully at the health of the eyes, check pressures, assess your field of vision and investigate anything that doesn't look quite as it should. At Bottomleys, we can also use OCT to see beneath the surface of the retina and build a much more detailed picture.

Not everybody needs every test every time. A good examination should be tailored to the person sitting in the chair, their health, their family history and the things they've noticed.

Even if that happens to be nothing at all.

So yes, being able to see clearly is excellent. We're rather keen on making sure your eyes are healthy too.

📍 Halifax: 22 Union St HX1 1PR · 01422 331031
📍 Lindley: 55 Lidget St HD3 3JP · 01484 643 692
🌐 bottomley-opticians.co.uk/book-appointment

Address

Halifax
HX11PR

Opening Hours

Tuesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	9am - 4pm

Telephone

+441422331031

Website

http://www.bottomley-opticians.co.uk/

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