Street parties...

...(see below) have changed over the years. These days, it's all barbeques and chilled wine, and going on until late. Back in the 1970s I was a Borough Councillor (London Borough of Sutton, where I grew up) and was asked to give out the prizes and make the speech etc at a street party for the Queen's Silver Jubilee: at that time it was still tea and orange squash and sandwiches and cakes and finished at 5pm. A chap produced a guitar and we sang "God save the Queen" and I called for three hearty cheers for HM the Queen and urged that we make them so loud that she'd hear them at Buckingham Palace. That went down well, so I repeated it at the Golden Jubilee street party held locally ten years ago...