Dead Men’s Spex – look out for us online!
Did you get to see the Small Axe film ‘Mango’ last Sunday? We did and were looking out for our glasses which we spotted, Aunt Betty (Llewella Gideon ) the cook in the Mangrove was wearing a pair of ours and so was Ian Macdonald (Jack Lowden) the defence...
Mangrove – glasses supplied by Dead Men’s Spex
How is lock down two going for you? We are fortunate in that our business is mainly on line and we can continue pretty much as usual and thankfully (for all of us!) Dead Man Junior is still attending school. Unfortunately, not all businesses are as lucky as us; the...
Lockdown two at Dead Men’s Spex
What a difference a week makes. As we enter lockdown 2 day 5 Dead Man and I have been mainly sorting frames. He managed to get in under the wire and get to London last Wednesday the day before lockdown and buy a whole selection of fabulous new old stock. It was not...
New website
We have a new website. Hooray! Along with the new website we have a new blog page, so here I am and it’s great to be back! We also have a new website provider, Starfish, who have been working hard to set it all up and get it out there for us. Our new site is smart...
Spectacles, art and everything – the tooth the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!
I’m often asked that if money was no object what frames would I love to own in my collection. Well to be honest, most collectible frames tend to be collectible due to the provenance of the person who owned them and not necessarily the quality of the frame. Who...
Merry Christmas from Dead Men’s Spex
Hello Merry Christmas Uh oh! I hope Santa doesn’t think I have been too naughty as I haven’t blogged for a very long time. I’m happy to say that 2019 and has been good to us here at Dead Men’s Towers. Looking over the year, a highlight for me...
Dead Men’s Spex on the radio…
Well we are in December already and things have been going well at Dead Men’s Spex. In November we went with Little Vintage Lover Fair to a new venue to sell our glasses at the Great Hospital in Norwich, it is a beautiful medieval hospital tucked away behind the...
Fabulous Forties Fun at North Norfolk Railway
Hi! We had a great time at the 1940s event at The North Norfolk Railway. The weather was lovely and we were very busy. We met some familiar faces and also quite a few new people too. The layout had changed slightly and we were nearer the music than we have been in...
Back to the Forties for Dead Men’s Spex
This weekend – Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September it’s back to the Forties for Dead Men’s Spex with North Norfolk Railway. We will be out and about and dusting off our stall and heading off to the North Norfolk Railway 1940s weekend This event...
Hot Heydon
We are back from Little Vintage Lover Fair at Heydon in rural Norfolk today and are gently cooling down. It was a fantastic day weather wise, as it normally is for this event and it was a very busy day. We were in our usual spot inside the village hall and as the...