Voucher Scheme Replaces NHS Glasses
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Voucher Scheme Replaces NHS Glasses
(About Anglia)
Need prescription glasses? Who qualifies for the new NHS vouchers?
Short news item summing up the situation for spectacles wearers as old-fashioned NHS glasses are replaced by a voucher scheme. The distinctive range of NHS frames for children and adults is on display, little-changed since 1948. NHS vouchers may go towards the cost when people choose from the wider range of frames available, including more expensive designer frames. Ophthalmic optician Mike Revell explains who will qualify for the NHS voucher from 1 July 1986.
The reporter was Rebecca Atherstone for this video, made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
Video filmed to be inserted during live broadcast of Anglia Television's early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The live studio presentation provided context for the video as part of a news story or magazine feature within the programme. About Anglia was not recorded during broadcast, so it is usually just the pre-recorded programme inserts which survive. In the 1980s Anglia Television was broadcasting to a wide area in the East of England including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and adjoining parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland where there was some overlap with neighbouring ITV regions.
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Fashion takes enormous strides forward in 20th century Britain.
From the Tudor court to the Georgian dandy, Britain has long cultivated a passion for fashion, but the late 20th century saw things step up a gear. New generations of talent emerged, whose idiosyncratic style democratised fashion for a younger crowd and helped sell ‘Cool Britannia’ to the world - long before that term was coined. In the 1960s, progress was catalysed by the ‘Swinging London’ of Biba and Mary Quant, followed by the Punk movement a decade later. Designers drew inspiration not just from contemporary subcultures but also from established craft traditions across the UK – in some cases helping to revive cottage industries at risk of dying out. The dawn of the 1980s saw the rise of avant-garde pioneers (Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood), reimagined Savile Row tailoring (Tommy Nutter) and the upscale yet quintessentially British chic of Jean Muir and Bruce Oldfield – a favourite of Diana, Princess of Wales, who gifted British fashion a truly global platform.
38 videos in this collection
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British Fashion Autumn 1983
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Alternative Fashion 2002, Brady Arts and Community Centre
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Scottish: Fashion - Pem2543
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Computer Shows Off Make Up Effects
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Northampton Fashion Designer
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Outsize Fashion for 'Checkout'
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Spectacles - 'High Street Fashion'
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Barbara Cartland Book 'Getting Older'
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The Leverett Angora Rabbit Farm
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Martha Hill Age 74 In New Career
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Princess Setting New Hair Fashions
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Voucher Scheme Replaces NHS Glasses
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The Hotel on Burgh Island
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The Gallery of Costume, Manchester
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The Yorkshire Disco Dancing Championships
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The Best of British Fashion
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Belfast Fashion and Design Centre
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The Original Cowboys Were Welshmen
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1980 British Fashion Awards
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Fashion and the King's Road
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Ladies Fashion Autumn 1983
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The British Fashion Awards 1981
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The Miriam Stoppard Health and Beauty Show [27/08/92]
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Knitmaster F370 Fine Gauge Machine
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