1977, queens jubilee

[Marillion]

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I was thirteen during the Silver Jubilee. I remember our teacher telling us that the Queen had very kindly given us a day off school for the event. Then he said, "So if you don't like the Queen or the Jubilee, you'd better come into school tomorrow!"
I wonder if he knew that 'The Queen' was our nickname for the headmistress?

We watched it on telly, and at one point they told us what the Queen was having for lunch. We were having beans on toast, and we wondered if the Queen had ever eaten beans on toast.

No patriotic celebrations for us London cynics!

[DeptfordDraylons]

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All I can remember about the 1977 Silver Jubilee is being at infants' school, and some very excitable kid called Dorothy (her parents must have been Wizard of Oz fans) singing: "It's the Silver Jubilee! Red, white and blue! It's the Silver Jubilee".

I have a vague recollection of Anglia Television having an on-screen clock with the 1977 Silver Jubilee insignia on it. I'm sure I wasn't imagining this.

[Fatboy]

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You will find loads of red tape trying to close a road off for a street party plus you have to get public liability insurance .police/council permission etc.....such bull!

I agree it is such bull. Bring back the days when we lived in a non red tape and a non no win no fee sueing society.

[memoman]

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I can remember the 1977 Jubilee, I was only 6, but I can remember the street had ribbons going back and forward across the street, tables and chairs going from one of the street to the other and this was on nearly every street in my area. Everybody in the community rallied round and made it a day to remember.

I can remember that tables were placed at both ends of the roads to close the road off.

I can remember in 2002, there been similar events planned, but our now politically correct society and ludicrous bureaucracy put a stop to it before it even got started

You will find loads of red tape trying to close a road off for a street party plus you have to get public liability insurance .police/council permission etc.....such bull!

[Fatboy]

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I can remember the 1977 Jubilee, I was only 6, but I can remember the street had ribbons going back and forward across the street, tables and chairs going from one of the street to the other and this was on nearly every street in my area. Everybody in the community rallied round and made it a day to remember.

I can remember that tables were placed at both ends of the roads to close the road off.

I can remember in 2002, there been similar events planned, but our now politically correct society and ludicrous bureaucracy put a stop to it before it even got started

[moonvisage]

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No,not PC,just tight fisted LOL.
The actual party at the youth club,was not just for one street now i recall,it was for an entire council estate.The actual organisers of the youth club celebrations,were not council tenants,but people who lived along the street who owned private houses.

[Elbmek]

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Those are great pictures Sixtyten,thanks for posting them.The party in our street was held inside a crumbling youth club,and there was no air of excitement at all,due to it being in the usual place we all went to anyway.There were no flags or any item with a union jack or image of the Queen on anywhere in the youth club and the street,whcih gave the street no Queen's Jubilee atmosphere at all.It turned out,the parents who organised it all in our street,did not want to spend their money giving the kids in the street a little party,so bullied the youth club into opening and supplying the drinks.A few of the parents had to make a sudden emergency rush of jam sandwiches etc to feed the infants.Anyone over the age of 8,was not allowed anything to eat,only watered down orange juice.
Luckily,in the afternoon,my mother took me to my grandparents house.I got there to discover a load of long tables in a line,and the whole place brimming with different types of food and drink.The place was full of plates and cups with the Queen on,and union jacks etc everywhere.It was just like the pictures you posted above Sixtyten.The wonderful thing about my grandparents street party,was that i knew most of the old people who were organising it,and felt safe and comfortable.

Good grief, thats almost communist!! Were they 'pc' then as well?

[moonvisage]

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Those are great pictures Sixtyten,thanks for posting them.The party in our street was held inside a crumbling youth club,and there was no air of excitement at all,due to it being in the usual place we all went to anyway.There were no flags or any item with a union jack or image of the Queen on anywhere in the youth club and the street,whcih gave the street no Queen's Jubilee atmosphere at all.It turned out,the parents who organised it all in our street,did not want to spend their money giving the kids in the street a little party,so bullied the youth club into opening and supplying the drinks.A few of the parents had to make a sudden emergency rush of jam sandwiches etc to feed the infants.Anyone over the age of 8,was not allowed anything to eat,only watered down orange juice.
Luckily,in the afternoon,my mother took me to my grandparents house.I got there to discover a load of long tables in a line,and the whole place brimming with different types of food and drink.The place was full of plates and cups with the Queen on,and union jacks etc everywhere.It was just like the pictures you posted above Sixtyten.The wonderful thing about my grandparents street party,was that i knew most of the old people who were organising it,and felt safe and comfortable.

[sixtyten]

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Our Street party '77

[moonvisage]

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That's a wonderful picture tony.I love the way everyone is dressed up and having an exciting fun time.

[tonyfinster]

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We had a street party with most of us in fancy dress, i remember it being a scorching day.
Our local paperboy was dressed as a hula dancer, i remember everyone laughing for ages about it.

heres a pic of our street party, I'm peeping out from behind the soldier with my bow and arrow made from a garden cane and 2 peices of yellow hot wheels track.

[moonvisage]

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I remember a discussion i had with a kid at the time of the jubilee,just before the Queen came down the road in her big car.We were both punk at the time,and he wanted to do a couple of punky things like shout swear words and stick two fingers up as she passed.I flat out refused,simply because the whole community was out that day,genuinely enjoying themselves and sharing things,and i didn't want that national media made up anti queen punk junk in my head,ruining my communities fun day.My mate sulked off,and i had a great time watching the Queen pass,especially when i realized i was not one of the teenage,weak minded,Media Head kids,who said and did everything and anything a journalist told them to do.

[Seventies Child]

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We had a party in the play ground at primary school and we all had to wear red, white & blue clothes and it was a lovely sunny day. I remember sitting there eating jelly from a washed out margarine tub. We all got a big silver coin which is still at Mum's. We painted a huge wall picture of the queen that went up in the wall of my class room.

[moonvisage]

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I remember the queens jubilee.me and a mate watched her pass along the main road of our town and we then went to a small party in the local youth club,then,later on in the afternoon,i went to my grandparents house and joined in the street festivities.Our street did not bother with a street party,just a cheap set up in the youth club.I am glad i went to my grandparents,as their street showed me what it was all about and how much fun street parties were with masses of food and drink.

[Aidanagain]

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Much more was made of the '77 Silver jubilee than the Golden one in '02 - I remember the pullouts in all the comics ( can see Scared-Stiff Sam's mam waving a flag in a parade ), the logos on the Man U shirts at the Cup Final, the garden parties, etc.
Ironic that punk with its 'God Save the Queen' and all that took off around then.