The Spectacle Makers: The first 300 years in Minutes

By Colin Eldridge

The author, having been rummaging around the archives of a City Livery Company for twenty or so years, has now produced a book of the interesting bits, backed-up with anecdotes and an outline of the historical background in which spectacle makers found themselves at various times between 1629 and 1929. Showing the development of a small, hard-up company to one with considerable presence in Victorian London.

Though primarily of interest to those involved in various ways with optics, it will also be of interest to those who like their bits of history in small doses wrapped up in a more informal approach.

The author, after war-time evacuation in Devon, a law degree at Bristol University, National Service and a mooch around the City, joined the then Corporation of London before spending 32 years as Clerk and Director of Examinations of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. After marriage, three children, nine grandchildren, golf, cricket, gardening, amateur operatics and model railways he finds himself with time to commit some of his memories and findings to paper, for better or worse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1527245373
• ISBN13: 9781527245372
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Colin Eldridge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"