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Above, Sally when she was a little younger.
Sally was born in Norfolk in 1954. She went to school in Kings Lynn, and worked as a petrol pump attendant, an electronic assembly worker and receptionist in an optician's before entering UMIST where she gained her degree in Ophthalmic Optics from UMIST in 1976 and qualifying with the British College of Optometrists (then British Optical Association) in 1977. She is now a member of the British Contact Lens Association and a member of the Association of Optical Practitioners
Since graduating she has worked as an Optometrist in South Manchester - for ten of those years as a managing ophthalmic optician for Dollond & Aitchison - during which time she supervised a number of pre-registration optometrists and correspondence course DOs. During the 80s she taught part-time at UMIST - first dispensing and then contact lens practice and since 1986 was an examiner with the British College of Optometrists in dispensing; case records and practice law; and contact lens practice. From time to time she has participated in schools' career seminars and regularly shown primary school children round her practice.
In 1978 she set up home with her husband, Chris, in Cheadle and opened her own practice in the Village there in 1990.
Her interests include music and opera and she used to do a little singing (Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Grade 6 in singing) but this had to make way for her career and three young children, Morgan, Sky and Kit.