For questions 1-15 read the text about Burlington Arcade. Use the root of the words given with the relevant number to form a word that fits the space. Adapted from Britain Magazine, January 2022, “Beadles and Baubles”. -- London’s Historic Arcades: Elegance, Commerce and Culture In September 1817, The Gentleman’s Magazine announced plans for a covered double row of shops between Piccadilly and Burlington gardens, in the upscale Mayfair district of London, ’for the sale of jewellery and other fancy article… for the gratification of the publick and to give employment to the industrious females’. Plans had been .......... (1. FOOT) for two years to establish a Piazza for all Hardware, Wearing apparel and Articles not Offensive in appearance nor smell, when Lord George Cavendish commissioned Samuel Ware to create a magnificent galleria along the west side of his Palladian mansion, Burlington House (now home to the Royal Academy of Arts). The design aimed to provide his .......... (2. LORD) wife and her friends with a secure and elegant place to shop, while preventing the hoi polloi from tossing .......... (3. DISCARD) oyster shells and other refuse over the garden wall. By late 1819, every shop in the splendid new Burlington Arcade had been rented out – to hosiers and hatters, goldsmiths and engravers, jewellers, watchmakers, wine merchants, and pastry cooks. It was the premier destination for a bonnet or umbrella, shawl or shooting stick, with numerous fashionable boutiques gathered under one roof, while the precinct was patrolled by beadles recruited from Lord Cavendish’s regiment, the Royal Hussars, tasked to .......... (4. FORCE) decorum and keep an eye out for pickpockets. Today, the Burlington beadles, Britain’s oldest and smallest police force, continue to parade in their frock coats and top hats, preventing infractions such as humming, hurrying, behaving boisterously, or cycling, while more importantly adding a quaint .......... (5. PICTURE) to the longest and one of London’s most beautiful shopping arcades. A far cry from sterile, modern shopping malls, it becomes particularly enchanting at Christmas, following the .......... (6. CEREMONY) “switch on” of the lights, when the shops are fully adorned, illuminated, and bustling. Visitors can browse for exquisite handmade shoes at Church’s and Crockett & Jones, crystalware at Lalique, or fragrances in bottles topped with Swarovski gold-coated caps at Roja Parfums; or take a moment for a shoeshine, enjoy a coffee at Noxy Brothers, or indulge in hot chocolate, French pastries, and macarons from Ladurée. Just across the road, the Edwardian gem, the Piccadilly Arcade, stretches through to Jermyn Street, where a bronze statue of Regency dandy George “Beau” Brummell adorns the .......... (7. ENTER), and tailors, shirtmakers, and barbers cater to the sophisticated gentleman about town. Built in 1908 from Portland stone, following designs by architect George Thrale Jell, and featuring ornate iron balconies above bow-windowed shopfronts, this arcade is .......... (8. PRIME) oriented toward a male .......... (9. CLIENT). Gentlemen’s haberdasher and shirtmaker Budd has been a tenant since its inception, although its original premises at No. 4 were destroyed when a bomb struck the building in April 1941. Here, too, visitors can find the tailor and Royal Warrant holder Benson & Clegg, luxury leather goods at Swaine Adeney Brigg, and one of the oldest pharmacies, Santa Maria Novella. On Old Bond Street, which runs parallel to Burlington Arcade, the High Victorian Royal Arcade leads through to Albemarle Street and is, to many, the most elegant of all, distinguished by its orange-and-white façade, saddle-shaped glass roof, stuccoed arches, curved windows and Ionic columns. Glance up at either entrance to admire the relief panels of reclining female figures, caryatids and the iron balcony. You will also notice that it is labelled simply “The Arcade”, the name it bore when it was first completed in 1879. It gained its Royal designation in the early 1880s, after Queen Victoria became a patron of the shirtmakers HW Brettell at No. 12—now home to Ormonde Jayne perfumers. Early tenants included the court florist Edward Goodyear, the bootmaker John Latha, a glass stainer and a .......... (10. HERALD) stationer. Today, visitors come for bespoke jewellery at Calleija, shoes by George Cleverley, handmade spectacles from EB Meyrowitz, and pink champagne truffles from Charbonnel et Walker, .......... (11. CHOCOLATE) to His Majesty the King. For an even deeper .......... (12. IMMERSE) into chocolate bliss, just a short way to the east you’ll find the Art Deco Princes Arcade, home to Prestat—founded in 1902 by Antoine Dufour, whose chocolate truffles famously inspired Roald Dahl’s adult novel My Uncle Oswald. Constructed between 1929 and 1933, the arcade was given a fresh lease of life when the Crown Estate relaunched it in 2018, introducing a more contemporary atmosphere and striking new entrance canopies designed by artist Andrew Bick. Make sure you explore Sirplus, established in 2010 as a modest market stall selling boxer shorts fashioned from surplus shirtmakers’ fabric, before expanding into recycled cashmere scarves, ties, bags, and hats—true to their mission of transforming “would-be waste into lifetime companion pieces.” You’ll also find hatters Christy’s, the makers of the iconic Homburg worn by Marlon Brando in The Godfather, and for two centuries the official helmet manufacturer for the UK Police Force. If you now take the Tube to Monument, you’ll encounter a market with a completely different character at Leadenhall Market. Located on the edge of the City’s financial district, on the very site of Roman Londinium, it remains consistently beautiful and becomes .......... (13. SPECTACLE) festive during the holiday season, when the Lord Mayor of London officially switches on the Christmas lights. A market has stood here since the 14th century. In 1411, the lease was bought by the legendary Lord Mayor Dick Whittington and presented to the City. For centuries it served as a major centre for selling meat, fish, poultry and game, though the structure you see today, with its wrought-iron and glass roof, was designed in 1881 by Sir Horace Jones, the architect responsible for Billingsgate fish market and Smithfield meat market. The building’s .......... (14. ARCHITECT) details still reflect this rich commercial past. You can browse everything from off-the-peg fashion, cigars, books and flowers to jewellery and watches, but above all the place is a true haven for food lovers. .......... (15. DELECTATION) crafted pastries are available from Aux Merveilleux de Fred (their speciality: meringues enveloped in chocolate whipped cream with dark chocolate shavings). Viandas offers charcuterie and cheeses sourced from their own farm in the Douro Valley. Enjoy Italian dishes at the family-run Rocca or at Osteria del Mercato, savour fish and shellfish delivered straight from Billingsgate Fish Market at Chamberlain’s, or settle in for a pint and a ploughman’s lunch at the atmospheric Lamb Tavern. If the cobbled Bull’s Head Passage strikes you as uncannily familiar, it may be because it featured as “Diagon Alley” in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; the Leaky Cauldron’s wizarding pub is, in fact, an optician’s shop. Magic.
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