Absolutely crap left me for 5 months without glasses. As got the lens in right eye to strong done…read morewrong. Making excuses on phone and lab doing lenses wrong. Ended up in Sunderland eye infirmary and because of vision express. I'm know going blind and going to see low vision assessment team up Sunderland eye infirmary. To get aids to help me walk around. I had a eye examination up the Sunderland eye infirmary, but not good. As the optromitist told me right lens to strong. Told the optromitist that vision express left me 5 months without sight glasses and the optromitist said that's not good. Bad attitude and managers from all staff on phone. So all I can say is your choice. I went to specialist opticians in sea road and they are very good. Called Buckingham and Hicksons. Very good optromitist Mr Hickson does very through eye examination and helpful lady who helps you out with frames.

Vision Express is based in King St in south shields and has been in the town centre for a while…read morenow, it recently moved from the bottom of King St to the top of King St close to Woolworths. The branch is small compared to the other branches it has in the north east, they offer eye tests both private and to NHS patients. The range of glasses they have in are ok but the prices of the lenses and frames for decent type of frame is far to expensive in my view. The price you pay for one pair of glasses from there you can get 2 pairs of the same lenses and similar frames from elsewhere. Again the staff try the hard sale push on you and try not to give you your prescription if u need glasses stopping u from going elsewhere to get them.

JA HICKS is an independant opticians situated in Nile Street,North Shields.It has been established…read morefor over 20 years.There is no rush and hurry conveyer belt kind of attitude you find in places such as Specsavers here.You get very personal,unhurried and caring service in this opticians.The assistants are the most caring,friendliest and helpful I have ever came across.The opticians second to none.They are very good price wise and are very up to date in the styles of frames they offer.They are well worth trying and offer all the usual services and testing available at other larger opticians.

This ones not just for kids,it's for anybody who loves this type of stuff…read more They have such wonderful things such as Star wars and other film memorabillia.The prices are good.You would'nt get them cheaper even online I suspect. You just have to go in and have a look around to appreciate the items on offer.I always end up with either coming away or wanting something I had seen on sale. They do seem to get a good stock of new goods quite regularly. Well worth looking in here,if you like this sort of thing. Easy to get to by bus or Metro as it's within the central shopping area of North Shields.

Moving image toys is an absolute treat, it is a kids wonderland and a lot of grown up kids as well,…read morethey have some fantastic stuff from highly collectible film memorabilia to star wars shot glasses also they do a lot of wrestling figures and accessories, you could gladly go in and buy every thing they have. In the past they have had David Prowse the man who played darth vader in the original star wars films signing autographs there. You must go and see this place for yourself. You may say that you can buy it all online as well but nothing beats the visual treat in store of seeing what they have up close. Highly recommend for star wars collectors. They have great stuff and amazingly low prices. They also have a great online shop if you don't live in the area. Locally run a definite for buying from here rather then the big rip of shops. Kids will love this place and will drag you back time and time again but this is a plce you will want them to drag you to GO NOW!!!