London Special Constabulary

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    “Unreal City,
    Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
    A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
    I had not thought death had undone so many.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

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    “When constabulary duty’s to be done,
    A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)