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♦ OPTICIANS ♦ OPTOMETRISTS ♦ CONTACT LENS PRACTITIONERS♦
Located on the market square next to the museum and opposite Taylor’s Estate Agents
♦ Wide selection of frames to suit all styles, tastes and budgets
01234 712860 ♦ Providers of professional and thorough eye care
♦ Open Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 5.30pm FRAME SALE UP TO 50% OFF
Congratulations to Rosemary who at the end of March retired after 21 years of loyal and dedicated service. We
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would like to thank Rosemary for all her hard work, she will be missed by staff and clients alike.
27 Market Place Olney Bucks MK46 4AJ
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Toyshop! What Toyshop & Where?
Igot off the bus and scratched my head. A lady who travels on the same bus had already told me she worked in ‘the toyshop’ but now I was confused for now she had said it was in Olney, in the town centre.
Next day I went and looked around the town centre which still seemed the place I had known for several happy years; back to the bus and back to scratching my head. My fellow traveller is not on the bus every time I use it so my scalp was living dangerously; she had always seemed sane and I'm nearly like that myself but where oh where was her toyshop! Then came the day when she was back on the bus and now I was told to look opposite Words Bookshop.
One of the many great charms of Olney is that you just don’t know what is around the tiniest corner until you've been to see. What I now found was simply glorious. The narrow alley becomes more childishly exciting with every footstep; Happy Days Toyshop is a perfect statement of what a toyshop is supposed to be. Colourful, cheerful and playful, simply to gaze around was fun for here is a store to lend real support to a proper childhood. Any parent hoping to restore proper childhood to their youngsters is advised to have a good look around.
There is simply nothing out of place, nothing that is not of childhood. Here is a shop where such dangers as television, computers and other electronic horrors are firmly absent. The proprietors also proudly boast that it doesn’t all come from China.
There are games galore; do you remember the days when games came indoors and we sat around the table, or knelt in a circle on the carpet, the days when children really played along with Mum and Dad, learning to speak and socialise
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