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Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

The Beadles at Mayfair's 205 year old Burlington Arcade reveal their new uniforms

The distinctive Beadles who patrol Mayfair’s Burlington Arcade today revealed their new uniforms designed by tailor Joshua Kane.

The Beadles are known as Britain’s oldest “police force” having been first appointed in 1819 by Lord Cavendish from his regiment The Hussars to guard the 180m-long arcade, a decade before the creation of the Peelers.

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