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Friday 29th September saw us celebrate our 2nd birthday with an instore open day! With weeks of planning, organising and arranging going into the event it certainly paid off when so many of you came in to see us on the day. We had, Duncan, a representative from one of…

Calling all spectacle wearers, we have a new 2 for 1 offer on in store and you won’t want to miss it! We are working with Hoya to deliver you a brilliant instore multi-pair spectacle offer so you can wear spectacle lenses to suit all your lifestyle needs. You don’t…

So after the success of our previous open day, we here at Ball & Gatehouse have been VERY busy planning and arranging our next one! The date will be confirmed in the next few weeks so keep an eye out for our big announcement! Anyone who came last time will…

On Sunday 18th June our optician, Oliver Gatehouse, ran the Port Sunlight 10k to help raise money for Diabetes UK. He has spent the last few weeks in training for the big event and all his hard work certainly paid off when he finished with an overall time of 52 minutes…

This weekend Nicola and Lauren spent Sunday at the eXcel centre in London at 100% Optical in London (The UK’s largest optical exhibition) buying in new frames for the store!  They spent the day meeting our current suppliers and looking at new ranges getting ideas for our upcoming spring collections….

In October this year, our Optician, Peter Ball visited Zambia in Africa as part of a training project for Vision Aid Overseas. Peter and his colleague Neil were responsible for the last leg of training for 12 practitioners – 8 of whom were from local charity Orbis – and they…