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# widescreen-centre.co.uk

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## Website

widescreen-centre.co.uk

Astronomy Telescope Shop | Telescope UK for Sale Online - Widescreen Centre The UK's astronomy specialist since 1971. Shop telescopes, astrophotography gear & accessories online or visit our Cambridgeshire showroom for expert advice.

Checked on 13 Nov 2026, 00:28 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 68 out of 100, Mixed truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

68 / 100

Mixed truth signals

## Business details

Years in business: 55 years

Sells: Physical goods

Sells to: The public

Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 28 years

Address: [2 Rosemary Lane, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2NZ, England](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=2%20Rosemary%20Lane%2C%20Sutton%2C%20Ely%2C%20CB6%202NZ%2C%20England)

Email address: sales@widescreen-centre.co.uk

Phone number: [+44 1353 776199](tel:+44%201353%20776199)

Contact page: [widescreen-centre.co.uk/contact.html](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/contact.html)

Website: [widescreen-centre.co.uk](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Do the sources agree?

Address: 2 Rosemary Lane, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2NZ, England Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found

Company name: VISUAL ADVERTISING LIMITED Companies House agrees Its website differs

Sources give different names · Its website has The Widescreen Centre

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could read We looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.widescreen-centre.co.uk), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is widescreen-centre.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 68 out of 100, mixed truth signals: 8 public checks clear, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: mixed. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

widescreen-centre.co.uk is run by Visual Advertising Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 55 years ago. Its website address was registered 28 years ago. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or a customer rating.

### Positives

- An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 55 years ago.
- Its website address was registered 28 years ago.
- The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Reviews information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

The UK's astronomy specialist since 1971. Shop telescopes, astrophotography gear & accessories online or visit our Cambridgeshire showroom for expert advice.

— Widescreen Centre, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: Sutton

About them

What makes them different: “Progressing from a 60mm refractor through Fullerscopes 6" and 8 3/4" reflectors, Simon started writing to Patrick Moore, and in 1975 was invited to his house, the first of many visits over the years.”

Customer stories: [Product Reviews](https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/customer-feedback.html)

What they sell

Promises: [Competitive Pricing](https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/price-match.html)

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/) [Its about page](https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/about-us.html)

### How to check if widescreen-centre.co.uk is legit

To check if widescreen-centre.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about widescreen-centre.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 55 years ago

- Its registered office at Companies House is 2 Rosemary Lane, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2NZ, England
- Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 30 June 2025
- It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
- Not found in the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) register of organisations that handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: UK

Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in England and Wales, its terms are governed by the laws of England, its VAT number starts GB, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode

Which countries the company serves: Europe, UK, Ireland

Why we believe that: its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships internationally, its delivery page says it ships to the UK, its delivery page says it ships to Ireland, its delivery page says it ships to Europe

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as VISUAL ADVERTISING LIMITED

Data protection registration (ICO): Not found

VAT number: GB232975449

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes

Registered company name: VISUAL ADVERTISING LIMITED

Company status: active

Company age: 55 years

Registered address: 2 Rosemary Lane, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2NZ, England

Accounts overdue: No

Confirmation statement overdue: No

Insolvency history: No

Registered office in dispute: No

Filing history consistent: Yes

Registered to do: 47789 Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores n.e.c.

Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Micro-entity accounts The shortest kind, for the smallest companies.

Secured loans (charges): 0 No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

Sources [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01015868)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 28 years ago

Domain age: 28 years

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=widescreen-centre.co.uk)

Website details We read 6 of its pages: contact, about, returns, delivery, terms and privacy

- Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+44 1353 776199](tel:+441353776199)

Contact page found: Yes

Sources agreeing on postcode: 2

Hosting company: DigitalOcean, LLC

What its pages say

Phone support: [+44 1353 776199](tel:+441353776199), [sales@widescreen-centre.co.uk](mailto:sales@widescreen-centre.co.uk)

In their own words: “Now in our 52nd year, The Widescreen Centre is a family owned and run specialist retailer with traditional values and has remained so since starting out in 1971. We pride ourselves with expert knowledge, a diverse and well-stocked showroom, an extensive range of quality products and outstanding customer service. In 2016 The Widescreen Centre relocated from the Baker Street area of central London, in the heart of London's West End, where we had been since the beginning, to the village of Sutton-In-The-Isle, about 10 minutes west of Ely in Cambridgeshire.”

How long you have to return: “This allows for a 14 day cancellation period from the day the goods are received and gives you the right to return the goods ordered and to receive a refund (less shipping or other costs incurred by us), within 30 days of the goods being received by us.”

Do returns cost anything: “Return shipping and its cost are the responsibility of the Customer and can not be refunded.”

Faulty or damaged items: “In the extremely unlikely event that your order is damaged in transit or not all of the items of your order are received, please Contact Us immediately and no later than within 48 hours from the receipt of the goods.”

Delivery cost: “If you would like to confirm shipping costs, please don't hesitate to Contact Us with the items that you are after and the delivery location and we will be happy to confirm.”

Sources [Homepage](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/) [Contact page](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/contact.html) [About page](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/about-us.html) [Returns page](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/returns-policy.html) [Delivery page](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/delivery-information.html) [Terms page](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/terms-conditions.html) [Privacy page](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/privacy-policy.html)

Search engines and AI Lets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by default GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot

Meta: Allowed by default meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.widescreen-centre.co.uk)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.widescreen-centre.co.uk) · Unknown · Unknown

Visitor traffic Real people only started visiting its website in August 2026

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 500,000 sites

First known user traffic: Aug 2026

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 1

Traffic pattern: new

Rank jump in the last 12 months: unlisted to top 500,000 by 2026-08

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up widescreen-centre.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 Singapore 100.0%

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/widescreen-centre.co.uk)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago

Website archive history: 26 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20000302/widescreen-centre.co.uk)

Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

### What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Analytics

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.

Source [Its homepage](https://widescreen-centre.co.uk/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

- Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 8 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns1.bluepark.co.uk
ns2.bluepark.co.uk

Address: 134.209.29.77

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=widescreen-centre.co.uk&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source widescreen-centre.co.uk's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source widescreen-centre.co.uk/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 68, Mixed: https://truthsignal.com/business/widescreen-centre.co.uk/report/2026-11.md

## Cite

Truth Signal, Widescreen Centre: truth score 68 out of 100, legitimacy confidence Mixed, assessed 2026-11-13, https://truthsignal.com/business/widescreen-centre.co.uk. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/widescreen-centre.co.uk.json
