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Burglar Alarm Britain
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“Berkeley Guard”, Oxford: well posh
Posted by on August 31, 2012
“Berkeley Guard” burglar alarm, Oxford • Berkeley has connotations of something really rich, doesn’t it? Like a hedge fund, or a property portfolio. So I looked up Berkeley Guard on the internet, and lo and behold, the company was “founded in 1982 by Julian Berkeley, second son of Sir Lennox Berkeley, musician and composer” – proving yet again that there are quite a lot of Sirs in burglar alarm land, even if only peripherally. Incidentally, Julian’s brother Michael presents the Sunday morning show Private Passions (a kind of upmarket an upmarket Desert Island Discs) on Radio 3 – so a posh burglar alarm indeed. • Spotted: Queen Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1, England, 2012 • Politics: In the Labour constituency of Oxford East
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