Mary Perkins Mary Perkins Dame Mary Lesley Perkins, (born 14 February 1944) is co-founder of Specsavers, the British retail opticians chain. Together with her husband, co-founder and chairman Doug Perkins, Dame Mary has three children, all of whom work for Specsavers, and are eventually expected to take over the privately owned company. She attended Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol. She then went to Cardiff University to train as an optometrist. At Cardiff, she met Doug Perkins, whom she would later marry. The couple established their first business in Bristol in the 1960s. This was a chain of opticians around Bristol, which they
Church of Our Lady with a Chain (Alcamo) carried on 26 June 1661. In 1922 the Reverend Ignazio Corrao founded here the female Congregation of Our Lady with a Chain. Inside the Church there is a painting dated 1799, realized by Giuseppe Renda, a painter from Alcamo, which represents Our Lady with a Chain. It is set in a 17th-century frame and was restored in 2009, thanks to the financial support given by the Rotary Club of Alcamo. Church of Our Lady with a Chain (Alcamo) The Church of Our Lady with a Chain (or "Church of the Holy Mary with a Chain") is a Catholic Church located