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5 June 2012
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Queen's Jubilee: Norfolk celebrates the Queen's 60-year reign
People across Norfolk have been celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a range of street parties and flotillas inspired by the Thames River Pageant. Many, like the one in Caistor St Edmund (right), took on a 1950s theme. Organisers said that despite Sunday's wet weather they would "soldier on".
On Saturday hundreds of people visited the seaside town of Wells-next-the-Sea where 70 boats, all regular users of the harbour, joined forces to create a Norfolk Jubilee flotilla. The boats started out near the sea and piloted towards the north Norfolk town to do a lap of the quay.
People living on the River Thurne got into the Jubilee spirit on Sunday to gather for a mini-flotilla. Organiser Di Cornell said: "Anything London and the Thames can do, so can we in Norfolk." Meanwhile, the Caister Lifeboat took part in the official River Thames pageant, one of seven boats in the water parade from Norfolk.
Residents in King's Park, Dereham took the Jubilee theme to heart, the event was one of hundreds of street parties across the county. Norfolk County Council approved 92 road closures for Jubilee celebrations.
Members of the Norwich Ukulele Society helped entertain street part revellers in the centre of Norwich with a rousing version of Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance.
A giant Union flag has been created on the lawn of Felbrigg Hall to help celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Property manager Ray Sandham said: "We wanted to do something slightly different. It's a bit of a showstopper when you view it from the upper floors of the house."
Diamond Jubilee celebrations continued in Cromer on Tuesday with bunting flying in the wind from the main pier as revellers partied in their beach huts. "We call it our pub on the prom," said Linda Farrow.
Windsor Road in King's Lynn celebrated the Jubilee with a street party on Monday attended by about 500 people. Organisers commissioned a Diamond Jubilee commemorative medal to mark the event. "We wanted to create a memento of the day for our children," said resident Joanne Russell.
Jemma Greef, from Norfolk, said her six-year-old basset hound Marmite "had to join in" with the celebrations. People in Gorleston (top right) celebrated in the Pavilion Theatre. Norfolk's smallest street party was held in the window of Westwood Heath Miniatures (bottom right) in Wells-next-the-Sea.
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