Downes Opticians

11/11/2025

10/11/2025

❄️ Winter can be tough on your eyes! ❄️
Cold winds, dry air, and indoor heating can all affect your comfort and vision. Make sure your eyes stay healthy, hydrated, and clear this season. 👁️✨

📅 Book your winter eye check today — because your eyes deserve comfort and clarity all year round.

📞 Call us or 🌐 Book online now!
North Berwick tel:01620893007
Leith tel:01315535358
https://www.downesopticians.com/

05/11/2025

👓 Cold, dark nights can make it harder to see clearly — but your vision doesn’t have to suffer this winter.
Book your eye exam today and make sure your vision is winter-ready! ❄️
https://www.downesopticians.com/

03/11/2025

👻🎨 Congratulations to Sophie, aged 8! 🎉

Sophie is the winner of our Halloween Colouring Competition with her amazing spooky masterpiece! 🕷️🕸️

A big thank you to everyone who entered — we loved seeing all your creativity and colourful Halloween designs. 💜🧡

31/10/2025

👻 This Halloween, don’t get spooked by blurry vision!
Book your eye test today and see just how frightfully good your vision can be.

https://www.downesopticians.com/

28/10/2025

This Halloween at our Leith practice, we're inviting young artists to colour a spooky scene of Edinburgh — complete with castles, ghosts, and pumpkins... all wearing glasses!

✏️ How to Enter
- Challenge: Colour the spooky scene we've provided. Look out for pumpkins in specs, ghosts in goggles, and bats in bifocals!

🏆 Prize
- One winner will receive a special Halloween Treat basket
- Winning artwork will be displayed in our practice window

📅 Deadline
Submit your coloured sheet by 29/10/2025 to Downes Opticians, 2 North Junction Street, Leith, EH6 6HN

Winner will be announced Thursday 30/10/2025

Enter if you dare!!!!

27/10/2025

Golden autumn mornings, cosy evenings, and low sun on the horizon… 🍂
The light may change, but your vision doesn’t have to.
✨ This October we’re offering a FREE upgrade to Transitions® lenses with your new glasses. They adapt seamlessly to every shift in brightness, so you can see clearly and comfortably all day.
📞 Call us at North Berwick tel:01620893007 Leith tel:01315535358 or 🌐 book online at https://www.downesopticians.com/ to claim your free upgrade before 31st October.

25/10/2025

👁️✨ Did you know your eyes are like cake? 🍰

No, seriously! Just like a cake has layers, so do your eyes — and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) lets us see those layers in incredible detail.

Think of OCT as slicing a cake (with light!) and checking every layer to make sure everything is healthy and looking great. 🧁

It helps us detect:
✅ Macular degeneration
✅ Glaucoma
✅ Diabetic eye disease
✅ And more — even before you notice any symptoms!

So the next time you hear “we’re doing an OCT scan,” just picture us looking at your beautiful cake-layered eyes. 🎂👀

24/10/2025

Booking an eye test with us has never been easier!
In just a couple of clicks🖱️you can book your
appointment online.
Just click and follow this link!
https://www.downesopticians.com/book-an-eye-test/
or alternatively call us at:
Leith 0131 553 5358
North Berwick 01620 893007