Hi my name is Sean and I am the founder and joint owner of The Glasses Factory with my wife Ursula. It is our vision that your shopping experience with us is a good one and we will endeavour to do everything we can to make this medium as individual as you are. There are few things that we buy that are as personal as a pair of glasses and here at The Glasses Factory we understand that. Our mission is to provide you with good quality eyewear at a fair price and to assure you that each customer is important to us-we guarantee it! After all where would we be without you?

I have spent the last 20 years in the optical industry and have seen many changes in service and technology. I started life in the 1st One- hour opticians in Dublin back in the late Eighties when glasses were big, colourful and, well, a sight to behold!!

Having grappled with the management side of optics, I quickly realised that I needed some formal qualifications and came to the UK to qualify which I duly did in 1995. I have worked at very clinically driven practices, run a family chain of practices and more recently had my own franchise with Vision Express and run a Specsavers outlet for a number of years. This broad range of experience I believe puts me in a unique position, in that I have experienced a broad spectrum of the optical market and hence can harness all of the positives I learned and hopefully avoid the negatives.

Finally, I will be available to advise and talk to any customer who wishes to do so at our practice in Blaydon by phone or in person and rest assured that you can call at any time for advice, measurements or to view our frames in person. I welcome any comments , be they positive or otherwise and promise to respond in person to any queries you may have.

Best Wishes,

Mr S M Blain FBDO
The Glasses Factory