On June 3, the Baitul Ghafoor Mosque, Long Lane, Halesowen, will host a BBQ street party for its neighbours which is due to attended by Dudley Mayor, West Midland MEP Phil Bennion and faith leaders.
Source/Credit: Birmingham Post
By Justin Halifax | Jun 1 2012
This is a edited version of a larger story published by Birmingham Post
The West Midlands will to hang up the bunting, dust off the Union flags and push the boat out to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
The Jubilee seems to have captured the region’s attention even more than Kate and Prince William’s wedding last year – with figures showing twice as many street parties booked for the Queen’s landmark than for the happy couple.
One of Britain’s oldest Muslim groups, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, is also planning a major commemoration of 60 years of the Queen’s reign by offering prayers for her in as many languages – including at two Birmingham mosques.
On June 3, the Baitul Ghafoor Mosque, Long Lane, Halesowen, will host a BBQ street party for its neighbours which is due to attended by Dudley Mayor, West Midland MEP Phil Bennion and faith leaders.
The Jubilee festivities will also be reflected in the skies across the region when Diamond Jubilee Beacons are lit in succession across the country.
Lichfield City Council will also be stepping back in time by placing a banner across the front of the city’s Guildhall, to re-create a banner placed there for the last Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. Town clerk Peter Young said: “The banner appears in a famous photograph of the Guildhall. Surprisingly little has changed over the last 115 years.”
The 1897 banner was lit by gas lamps and the city celebrated the jubilee in style with a free concert, free tea for school children, and a Grand Military tattoo “preceded by bearers of torches” – something which fittingly heralds the Olympic Torch procession that will pass through the city on June 30.
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