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Museum puts Joan's specs under glass
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newspaper cutting
Manchester Evening News; Leman, Andrea
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Manchester
July 1998
newsprint
overall: 284 mm x 254 mm

Half-page newspaper picture story concerning the donation of the 'strongest and ugliest pair [of spectacles] ever made in Britain' to the British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists. Features photograph of the wearer, Mrs Joan Hornby, plus an inset photograph of her after lens transplant and cataract surgery and a comparison photo of the comedian Benny Hill.


1998.435

Gift of Mr Neil Handley, 1998



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