That's it for today's Jubilee street party live page where we've brought you just a snapshot of Londoners across the capital coming together to eat, drink and enjoy each other's company as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
We'll leave you with this feast for the eyes...
This cake was made for Jubilee Street Party hosted by foodbank providers PL84U, in Leytonstone, with refugees who fled the Holocaust to refugees of modern conflicts including Afghanistan, Syrian and Ukraine taking the opportunity to share a meal together with those who helped them along the way in London.
Thank you for your company and hope you've had a brilliant Bank Holiday weekend, however you've spent it.
'I came here to meet all the neighbours I've never met before'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
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Colette Harding is the street's newest residentImage caption: Colette Harding is the street's newest resident
About 100 people were at a street party on Montrose Avenue by Queen’s Park, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
There was a large and multicoloured cake display and children were playing on a bouncy castle as adults enjoyed the food and drink.
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Colette Harding is one of the newest residents on the street, moving in three months ago.
She had baked a Union Jack cake to share with her neighbours and said the Queen was “a figure of stability”.
“She represents a lot of what Britain means,” she said.
“She has stuck by her family through thick and thin and her marriage lasted so long.
"I’m coming up to my 45th wedding anniversary and my dad was born the same year as her.”
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Steve CrabbImage caption: Steve Crabb
Steve Crabb, one of the organisers, said he wanted to celebrate the Queen’s longevity as well as the history of the street.
He said: “The community really came together very strongly through Covid and people who have lived alongside each other for many years got to know each other a lot better, so the community gelled.
“We really wanted to throw a street party so when the opportunity arose to celebrate Her Majesty’s reign and bring the community together it was a no brainer.”
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Lola and EllyImage caption: Lola and Elly
Lola (left) and Elly struck up a friendship at the street party.
Elly said: “I grew up here on this street. I left when I was 18 and I’m 25 now. I came back especially to meet all the neighbours I’ve never met before.”
Lola said: “Humans are hardwired for connection, so when we go out into the streets we want to know who we are living next to and this is a great way to do that.
“We’ve met so many different people. There are bakers, French tutors, so many others. It’s just beautiful.”
How have we celebrated past Jubilees in London?
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Residents in Dudley Street in Paddington in 1935 celebrating George V's Silver JubileeImage caption: Residents in Dudley Street in Paddington in 1935 celebrating George V's Silver Jubilee
London has played centre-stage for the UK’s Royal Jubilee
celebrations over the last 200 years, with street parties and parades regularly
playing a part.
King George III’s Golden Jubilee is generally considered to
be Britain’s first large-scale jubilee celebration, and while the monarch
marked it in Windsor, the capital held its own celebration.
Shops were shut, bells rang out and the Tower of London witnessed
a 50-gun salute as masses of people hit the streets dressed up in their finest.
Queen Victoria celebrated two jubilees – her Golden in 1887 and
her Diamond 10 years ago – and London came to a standstill for each as major
parades shut several roads, and street feasts and a grand tea were laid on for
the city’s poor.
King George V became the first UK monarch to celebrate a
Silver Jubilee in 1935 with yet another procession, while the capital’s
landmarks were spectacularly lit and a huge firework display took place in
Crystal Palace.
London street celebrations have always played a part for the
Queen’s previous three Jubilees.
Buckingham Palace has also had a central role, hosting
singers, celebrities and even Brian May who played the national anthem from the
roof in 2002.
You can find out more about the history of Jubilee
celebrations here.
Jubilee Jamboree in Mile End
The Mile End Old Town Residents' Association (MEOTRA) have been organising Jubilee street parties since 1977 and this year is no different.
Residents are enjoying a Jubilee Jamboree of party food and games in Tredegar Square.
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The road with a rich history of street parties
Wendy Hurrell
BBC London
Thorpebank Road in Shepherds Bush, west London, has quite the history when it comes to street parties and many of them have been organised by one family.
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Peter Trott and his family have organised many of the street parties, but the first one his family attended was the 1935 Silver Jubilee for George V.
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Thorpebank Road's first street party in 1935
Henry Baggett (Peter's grandfather on the left)Image caption: Thorpebank Road's first street party in 1935
Henry Baggett (Peter's grandfather on the left)
His family organised their first one in 1945 for VE Day celebrations and since then, many royal occasions have been marked with a street party.
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Peter's mother and father (right of the picture) organised the VE Day street party in 1945Image caption: Peter's mother and father (right of the picture) organised the VE Day street party in 1945
"My parents would’ve celebrated the 1953 coronation, but to envisage that 70 years later, the Queen would still be on the throne, it actually makes me feel proud that I’ve been able to carry on the tradition from my parents and my grandparents going back 80 years," Peter said.
Theresa is hosting the main music stage at Walthamstow’s ‘mile long street party’ and has been dancing in the crowd.
“We’ve organised different tastes and feels across the market street. There’s an extensive and eclectic programme,” she shouted over a punk rock band.
“There are mixed feelings as we are going through difficult times that all this money is going into these celebrations. But we see it as a massive community engagement event. We see it as something very positive.”
Several music stages have been set up along the High Street with different performers.
“Walthamstow means ‘place where everyone is welcome’, so that’s what we want everyone to feel when they’re here.”
Commemorative stamps released for Platinum Jubilee
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Royal Mail has marked the Platinum Jubilee by releasing a
set of commemorative stamps – something which has regularly been done to
celebrate Royal milestones.
"The Silver Jubilee of George V was a beautiful
example," says Peter Cockburn, president of The Royal Philatelic Society
London, the world's oldest surviving organisation for the study and collection
of stamps and postal history.
"There were just four stamps printed, and then there was a
mistake and they printed several sheets in the wrong colour - Prussian blue -
and they are very rare and very expensive."
Stamps were also issued for the Queen’s last three Jubilees,
although Mr Cockburn points out “they’re probably not as popular as they used
to be”.
The 152-year-old society itself holds an important place for the
monarch. She has been the group’s patron since the first year of her reign,
following a tradition which has last for more than a century.
"She's really interested in stamps because of her
grandfather," Mr Cockburn explains.
Find out more about the Queen’s interest in stamps here.
Shop to some pop?
Jamie Moreland
BBC News
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DJ Carmen from TootingImage caption: DJ Carmen from Tooting
This isn't a usual set for 34-year-old DJ Carmen from Tooting.
She's playing in the middle of Walthamstow's 17&Central shopping centre for the Jubilee.
"It's just bringing good vibes for everyone, making everyone dance, playing British songs and other singalong classics,"
she said.
Accompanied by a cardboard cutout of the Queen and large speakers, she hopes to bring something 'brand new' to
shoppers.
"Everyone is quite shocked, but it's fun. People are dancing, people are enjoying it and having a great time."
'The Queen sets a very good example'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
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Richard, 57, didn't want to be photographed but said he had been coming to the Hands on Hands Out homeless charity’s regular Sunday street stall for two years.
He said: “I think the best member of the royal family is the Queen, as she sets a very good example and she’s done a lot of duties in her time on the throne.
“I met Charles a couple of months ago when he came down to the Jesuit centre because he was interested in the homeless.
“He was quite clever and he has a sense of humour so I liked him. He said he’d be willing to help me but I go my own way.”
A few of those visiting were not interested in the Jubilee, but some wore Union Jack hats given out to get people in the spirit and others curtsied and bowed to a large cardboard cutout of the Queen.
One woman also arrived in a magenta dress with Union Jack flags in her hair.
“It’s about having fun, having a laugh with them,” said charity trustee Paul Jones.
From one queen to another
Of course many Londoners have already held street parties during the four-day holiday.
Thank you to Michelle Pettman for sending hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk this lovely photo taken yesterday in Bromley, south-east London.
She emails: "Our
queen of Green Street Green Pat Hugget aged 94 and the Mayor of
Bromley."
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'Nobody thinks about the homeless...but Queen tries'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
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Ray, who has been homeless for 22 years, attended the Hands On Hands Out street partyImage caption: Ray, who has been homeless for 22 years, attended the Hands On Hands Out street party
Ray, 62, originally from Southampton, has been homeless for 22 years.
“Nobody thinks about the homeless,” he said, adding he thought the Queen “tries”.
“It did tickle me last night, she made me laugh — I don’t know if you saw her do a bit with Paddington Bear.
“I thought that was very funny and shows she’s got a sense of humour.”
Justine Pillar, founder of Hands On Hands Out, said nobody coming to the stand at New St Pancras Church had been involved in street parties.
She said: “A couple of people have said they’ve seen the celebrations going on in London but they can’t get close up to watch.
“This is to make them feel included and to give them something to celebrate."
'Homeless people get excluded'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
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Paul Jones, trustee of Hands On Hands OutImage caption: Paul Jones, trustee of Hands On Hands Out
As neighbours get together today to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, many of those without a home feel excluded.
London charity Hands On Hand Out, which gives out food, hot drinks and clothes to homeless people, decided to throw its own street party.
About 70 people visited the stand in the grounds of New St Pancras Church.
Paul Jones, a trustee of Hands On Hands Out, said the charity itself had been moved on twice before finding its new home.
“Homeless people get excluded from lots of places, including most of the jubilee celebrations,” he said.
“That’s why having a street party today is important.”
Piece of cake, sir?
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The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall are attending a big Jubilee Lunch at The Oval cricket ground in south London on day four of what has been a busy time for the royal couple.
The pair had a late night partying at the palace and Prince Charles paid tribute to the Queen's life of service.
"I'm hoping the rain will clear"
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Helen Taylor is putting up banners made by refugees and Walthamstow residents, which symbolise words and themes that matter to them.
"It's a way of people expressing themselves through fabric", she said.
Helen is from Stories & Supper, a project which helps refugees to tell their stories.
She's preparing the rhythm and stories tent part of the 'Mile long street party'.
"We're celebrating the country that the UK is now. It's a culturally diverse country which has welcomed people from all across the globe. So this is a way of celebrating what Waltham Forest is like now and how we want it to continue being a welcoming place."
But will people be attracted to the party after this morning's soggy weather?
"I'm hoping the rain is going to clear and that there will be a rainbow," Helen said.
Welcome to our Platinum Jubilee party coverage
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Hello and welcome to our special London live page to mark the
Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Today is the final day of the four-day bank holiday celebrating the Queen's 70th year as monarch.
Stay with us throughout the afternoon as we bring you stories,
pictures and videos from across the capital as Londoners gather to celebrate
the Queen’s 70-year reign by holding street parties and Jubilee lunches.
And remember you can send us
your images of what you're up to, to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk and
we’ll publish as many as we can.
Live Reporting
All times stated are UK
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That's it for today's Jubilee street party live page where we've brought you just a snapshot of Londoners across the capital coming together to eat, drink and enjoy each other's company as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
We'll leave you with this feast for the eyes...
This cake was made for Jubilee Street Party hosted by foodbank providers PL84U, in Leytonstone, with refugees who fled the Holocaust to refugees of modern conflicts including Afghanistan, Syrian and Ukraine taking the opportunity to share a meal together with those who helped them along the way in London.
Thank you for your company and hope you've had a brilliant Bank Holiday weekend, however you've spent it.
'I came here to meet all the neighbours I've never met before'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
About 100 people were at a street party on Montrose Avenue by Queen’s Park, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
There was a large and multicoloured cake display and children were playing on a bouncy castle as adults enjoyed the food and drink.
Colette Harding is one of the newest residents on the street, moving in three months ago.
She had baked a Union Jack cake to share with her neighbours and said the Queen was “a figure of stability”.
“She represents a lot of what Britain means,” she said.
“She has stuck by her family through thick and thin and her marriage lasted so long.
"I’m coming up to my 45th wedding anniversary and my dad was born the same year as her.”
Steve Crabb, one of the organisers, said he wanted to celebrate the Queen’s longevity as well as the history of the street.
He said: “The community really came together very strongly through Covid and people who have lived alongside each other for many years got to know each other a lot better, so the community gelled.
“We really wanted to throw a street party so when the opportunity arose to celebrate Her Majesty’s reign and bring the community together it was a no brainer.”
Lola (left) and Elly struck up a friendship at the street party.
Elly said: “I grew up here on this street. I left when I was 18 and I’m 25 now. I came back especially to meet all the neighbours I’ve never met before.”
Lola said: “Humans are hardwired for connection, so when we go out into the streets we want to know who we are living next to and this is a great way to do that.
“We’ve met so many different people. There are bakers, French tutors, so many others. It’s just beautiful.”
How have we celebrated past Jubilees in London?
London has played centre-stage for the UK’s Royal Jubilee celebrations over the last 200 years, with street parties and parades regularly playing a part.
King George III’s Golden Jubilee is generally considered to be Britain’s first large-scale jubilee celebration, and while the monarch marked it in Windsor, the capital held its own celebration.
Shops were shut, bells rang out and the Tower of London witnessed a 50-gun salute as masses of people hit the streets dressed up in their finest.
Queen Victoria celebrated two jubilees – her Golden in 1887 and her Diamond 10 years ago – and London came to a standstill for each as major parades shut several roads, and street feasts and a grand tea were laid on for the city’s poor.
King George V became the first UK monarch to celebrate a Silver Jubilee in 1935 with yet another procession, while the capital’s landmarks were spectacularly lit and a huge firework display took place in Crystal Palace.
London street celebrations have always played a part for the Queen’s previous three Jubilees.
Buckingham Palace has also had a central role, hosting singers, celebrities and even Brian May who played the national anthem from the roof in 2002.
You can find out more about the history of Jubilee celebrations here.
Jubilee Jamboree in Mile End
The Mile End Old Town Residents' Association (MEOTRA) have been organising Jubilee street parties since 1977 and this year is no different.
Residents are enjoying a Jubilee Jamboree of party food and games in Tredegar Square.
The road with a rich history of street parties
Wendy Hurrell
BBC London
Thorpebank Road in Shepherds Bush, west London, has quite the history when it comes to street parties and many of them have been organised by one family.
Peter Trott and his family have organised many of the street parties, but the first one his family attended was the 1935 Silver Jubilee for George V.
His family organised their first one in 1945 for VE Day celebrations and since then, many royal occasions have been marked with a street party.
"My parents would’ve celebrated the 1953 coronation, but to envisage that 70 years later, the Queen would still be on the throne, it actually makes me feel proud that I’ve been able to carry on the tradition from my parents and my grandparents going back 80 years," Peter said.
Getting the party started in East Dulwich
Walthamstow 'a place where everyone is welcome'
Jamie Moreland
BBC London
Theresa is hosting the main music stage at Walthamstow’s ‘mile long street party’ and has been dancing in the crowd.
“We’ve organised different tastes and feels across the market street. There’s an extensive and eclectic programme,” she shouted over a punk rock band.
“There are mixed feelings as we are going through difficult times that all this money is going into these celebrations. But we see it as a massive community engagement event. We see it as something very positive.”
Several music stages have been set up along the High Street with different performers.
“Walthamstow means ‘place where everyone is welcome’, so that’s what we want everyone to feel when they’re here.”
Street party tour begins!
BBC Radio London
Commemorative stamps released for Platinum Jubilee
Royal Mail has marked the Platinum Jubilee by releasing a set of commemorative stamps – something which has regularly been done to celebrate Royal milestones.
"The Silver Jubilee of George V was a beautiful example," says Peter Cockburn, president of The Royal Philatelic Society London, the world's oldest surviving organisation for the study and collection of stamps and postal history.
"There were just four stamps printed, and then there was a mistake and they printed several sheets in the wrong colour - Prussian blue - and they are very rare and very expensive."
Stamps were also issued for the Queen’s last three Jubilees, although Mr Cockburn points out “they’re probably not as popular as they used to be”.
The 152-year-old society itself holds an important place for the monarch. She has been the group’s patron since the first year of her reign, following a tradition which has last for more than a century.
"She's really interested in stamps because of her grandfather," Mr Cockburn explains.
Find out more about the Queen’s interest in stamps here.
Shop to some pop?
Jamie Moreland
BBC News
This isn't a usual set for 34-year-old DJ Carmen from Tooting.
She's playing in the middle of Walthamstow's 17&Central shopping centre for the Jubilee.
"It's just bringing good vibes for everyone, making everyone dance, playing British songs and other singalong classics," she said.
Accompanied by a cardboard cutout of the Queen and large speakers, she hopes to bring something 'brand new' to shoppers.
"Everyone is quite shocked, but it's fun. People are dancing, people are enjoying it and having a great time."
'The Queen sets a very good example'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
Richard, 57, didn't want to be photographed but said he had been coming to the Hands on Hands Out homeless charity’s regular Sunday street stall for two years.
He said: “I think the best member of the royal family is the Queen, as she sets a very good example and she’s done a lot of duties in her time on the throne.
“I met Charles a couple of months ago when he came down to the Jesuit centre because he was interested in the homeless.
“He was quite clever and he has a sense of humour so I liked him. He said he’d be willing to help me but I go my own way.”
A few of those visiting were not interested in the Jubilee, but some wore Union Jack hats given out to get people in the spirit and others curtsied and bowed to a large cardboard cutout of the Queen.
One woman also arrived in a magenta dress with Union Jack flags in her hair.
“It’s about having fun, having a laugh with them,” said charity trustee Paul Jones.
From one queen to another
Of course many Londoners have already held street parties during the four-day holiday.
Thank you to Michelle Pettman for sending hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk this lovely photo taken yesterday in Bromley, south-east London.
She emails: "Our queen of Green Street Green Pat Hugget aged 94 and the Mayor of Bromley."
'Nobody thinks about the homeless...but Queen tries'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
Ray, 62, originally from Southampton, has been homeless for 22 years.
“Nobody thinks about the homeless,” he said, adding he thought the Queen “tries”.
“It did tickle me last night, she made me laugh — I don’t know if you saw her do a bit with Paddington Bear.
“I thought that was very funny and shows she’s got a sense of humour.”
Justine Pillar, founder of Hands On Hands Out, said nobody coming to the stand at New St Pancras Church had been involved in street parties.
She said: “A couple of people have said they’ve seen the celebrations going on in London but they can’t get close up to watch.
“This is to make them feel included and to give them something to celebrate."
'Homeless people get excluded'
Jennifer McKiernan
BBC London
As neighbours get together today to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, many of those without a home feel excluded.
London charity Hands On Hand Out, which gives out food, hot drinks and clothes to homeless people, decided to throw its own street party.
About 70 people visited the stand in the grounds of New St Pancras Church.
Paul Jones, a trustee of Hands On Hands Out, said the charity itself had been moved on twice before finding its new home.
“Homeless people get excluded from lots of places, including most of the jubilee celebrations,” he said.
“That’s why having a street party today is important.”
Piece of cake, sir?
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall are attending a big Jubilee Lunch at The Oval cricket ground in south London on day four of what has been a busy time for the royal couple.
The pair had a late night partying at the palace and Prince Charles paid tribute to the Queen's life of service.
"I'm hoping the rain will clear"
Helen Taylor is putting up banners made by refugees and Walthamstow residents, which symbolise words and themes that matter to them.
"It's a way of people expressing themselves through fabric", she said.
Helen is from Stories & Supper, a project which helps refugees to tell their stories.
She's preparing the rhythm and stories tent part of the 'Mile long street party'.
"We're celebrating the country that the UK is now. It's a culturally diverse country which has welcomed people from all across the globe. So this is a way of celebrating what Waltham Forest is like now and how we want it to continue being a welcoming place."
But will people be attracted to the party after this morning's soggy weather?
"I'm hoping the rain is going to clear and that there will be a rainbow," Helen said.
Welcome to our Platinum Jubilee party coverage
Hello and welcome to our special London live page to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Today is the final day of the four-day bank holiday celebrating the Queen's 70th year as monarch.
Stay with us throughout the afternoon as we bring you stories, pictures and videos from across the capital as Londoners gather to celebrate the Queen’s 70-year reign by holding street parties and Jubilee lunches.
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