Eye test
A thorough check of your vision and eye health with an optometrist, explained as we go.
Independent opticians since 1962
See the difference before you choose.
Hold our glasses up to the chart. Change the prescription, the lens and the coating, and watch what each one does — then book an eye test with someone who will explain it properly.
Drawn frame Move the glasses over the chart.
Minus is short-sighted, plus is long-sighted. The view outside the lenses is blurred by the same amount.
Eye tests from £25
OCT retinal scans on site
Children seen from age three
Appointments most weeks within five days
Eye care
An eye test that takes its time
All servicesEye test with OCT
Everything in our eye test plus a 3D scan of the retina — the most detailed look at eye health available on the high street.
Contact lens consultation
Fitting, a trial pair and teaching for new wearers, or an annual check for existing ones.
Children’s eye test
Pictures and games instead of letters, at a pace that suits your child.
Dry-eye clinic
An unhurried assessment of your tear film and eyelids, with a plan you can actually follow.
Frame styling
Time with a dispensing optician to choose frames that fit your face, prescription and life.
Frame finder
Which shape suits your face?
A rule of thumb our dispensers use: frames that contrast with your face shape tend to balance it. Pick the outline closest to yours.
On the wall this month
Frames made by people, not brands
See every frameLenses, explained
Why a thinner lens costs more — and when it is worth it
Put in your prescription and frame size and we will show how thick the edge of each lens index would be, side by side.
Open the lens guideWho you will see
The same faces, year after year
About the practiceHannah Okafor
Optometrist & director
Leads the clinical team and reviews every OCT scan. Joined in 2009; took over the practice in 2018.
Glaucoma and OCT imaging
Tom Lacey
Dispensing optician
Has fitted frames on Bridge Street for twenty years and will tell you honestly when a frame is wrong.
High prescriptions and varifocals
Mei Chen
Contact lens optician
Teaches nervous first-time wearers and runs the children’s myopia-control clinic.
Specialty and myopia-control lenses
Ruth Ellison
Practice manager
The voice on the phone. Knows every patient by name and most of their dogs.
Appointments and repairs
In their words
What patients tell us
The first eye test where someone showed me my own retina and explained what they were looking for. Unhurried and kind.
I was talked out of the most expensive lenses, not into them. My -7 prescription finally looks thin in a small round frame.
They made a game of my son’s test and fixed his frames on the spot when he sat on them a week later.
Sample reviews for this demonstration.
Visit
14 Bridge Street
14 Bridge Street, Marlow SL7 1AW
- Monday – Friday
- 09:00–17:30
- Saturday
- 09:00–16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Journal
Clear answers to common questions
How often should you have an eye test?
Every two years for most adults — but there are good reasons to come sooner, and they are not all about your glasses.
High-index lenses: when they are worth it
Thinner lenses cost more. For some prescriptions they transform how glasses look; for others the difference is barely visible.
Choosing frames for your face shape
The rule of contrast, and the many good reasons to ignore it.