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Brass bands, bicycles and marching special constables outside the Albert Hall for a Sunday presentation before Bishop John Taylor-Smith outside the Albert Hall.

The Special Constables were volunteers that operated at home, replacing policemen serving on the Western Front during the First World War. Hundreds are filmed marching through London streets behind a brass band, and then milling around outside the Royal Albert Hall and in Hyde Park. They are on their way to a presentation at the Albert Hall before Bishop Taylor Smith. Smiling women and bicycling boys rubberneck