Innovative Eyecare since 1887
We want you to know we are still here for you. It’s 9:40 am and I am in the practice on my own – I’m doing my best to try to stay in contact with our lovely team, but it’s a tricky task trying to juggle it all. Day in Read More
Due to quite understandable concerns about infection, we are operating a reduced service remotely from the practice. In order to support you as best we can, we will be available today 8am to 12pm and 1pm-4pm, for the following: Emergency appointments Emergency spectacle and contact lens queries Please contact Andrew Read More
In conjunction with the General Optical Council and College of Optometrists guidance, we have developed our clinical management systems for telephone consultations.We are now better able to manage patients with eye difficulties, or spectacle/contact lens requirements remotely, in order to support you should you be in self-isolation. If anybody is Read More
Hello to all of our existing patients and sincere welcome new ones. This is obviously a very troubling and uncertain time for all of us, both from a home and a work life point of view. We want to take this opportunity to highlight the steps we are taking at Petticrew Read More
At Petticrew Optometrists, we aim to provide the very best level of eye care, the very best products, and the very best service available in any practice in Northern Ireland. We do this by helping all our team members to be the very best they can be and by listening Read More
Calling all patients, friends and family. Drop in, enjoy a glass of Prosecco or cup of tea or coffee and try on a selection of hundreds of frames from our lovely rep William Morris rep Ashley Kerr. Ladies, Gents, Sunnies all available. No appointment necessary. We will even give your Read More
Next time you are passing, bring in any pairs of glasses that you no longer use and we will pass them on to Vision Aid Overseas. Trained staff refurbish the glasses, analyse the prescription and transport them to eye clinics within developing countries. The gift of sight is special and Read More
I had the immeasurable pleasure of examining my maternal great aunt Martha’s eyes at her own home recently and learned a bit of where I came from. It all started when my great grandfather, his wife and houseful of six children were plunged into poverty at three o’clock one morning. Read More
Amongst a bunch of other stuff, I learned two really interesting things regarding human beings being deprived of visual stimulus.