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 |  | We are currently compiling a list of events in our area to help you decide how to celebrate.
Below you will find event details or for a simple summary, follow the links on the left for listings.
If you have an event to add, please contact us using the details on the right.
The national events that will be in our area are:
National Baton Relay
The Queen's Baton will pass through over 500 cities, towns and villages across the UK and will be carried by 5,000 individuals, with each runner carrying the baton up to 500 yards.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Live
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Live is a UK-wide Musical Party at the heart of the Golden Jubilee and is a celebration of all forms of live music.
See the details of Music Live in Coventry by following the link to the left.
Baton Relay
16 July
Coventry will be celebrating the arrival of the Baton on Tuesday, 16 July 2002. Lots of great events are now being planned to mark the occasion. We will have details here as soon as they are available.
Bubbenhall Golden Jubilee Celebration
1 June - A village procession.
2 June - Treasure hunt, tea with decorated historic vehicles, party in the park, stalls, various attractions and a fireworks display.
Phone: 0247 6305215
Flower festival and concerts
31 May - 3 June
St Oswald's Church
Jardine Crescent, Tile Hill
Flower festival and concerts to celebrate the Golden Jubilee.
Phone: 024 7646 5072
Godiva Procession
Saturday 8 June
Throughout the city
Starting from the cathedral ruins at 11am, the procession will wend its way around the city before ending in the Memorial Park, where the main jubilee-themed Godiva festival takes place.
Godiva Street Party
Monday 3 June
Priory Street, by Coventry Cathedral
A street party with a jubilee theme. A concert featuring top live music will accompany the lighting of a beacon to commemorate the jubilee. With street performers, community entertainment and food.
Longford Festival Mad Hatter's Tea Party
3 June 12 noon - 7pm
Longford Park, Coventry
Free fun day with a fair, donkey rides, live music, karaoke, hot food, stalls, sports activities, Punch and Judy, children's entertainment, hat making with artists, hat competition, children's tea party, cheerleaders, morris men, dance, face painting and more.
ΜύBedworth Golden Jubilee Celebrations
1 - 9 June
1 June arrangement of Β£1 000 worth of flowers, band playing 1950's music
2 June Flower festival open to the public, world championship class Irish dancers, tree planting
3 June Flower festival continues, live 1950's music
4 June Civic Service, the national service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's will televised, flower auction, tea dance
8 June 1950's music in the town centre, classic transport run
Phone: 024 7661 4130
Fantastic Fifties
27 April - 23 June
Nuneaton and Bedworth Museum
A fun exhibition looking at life in the fifties.
Phone: 024 7635 0720
ΜύEngland be Glad! - Concert
22 June
Holy Trinity Church, Leamington
A Golden Jubilee Concert celebrating English choral music through the centuries.
Phone: 01926 456110
Exhibition of Royal vehicles
14 March - 31 July
Heritage Motor Centre
An exhibition of eight cars from The Royal Family accompanied by photographs.
Phone: 01926 641 188
Golden Jubilee Carnival event
15 June
Wren Hall
School Lane, Wroxall
The Carnival will have the theme "The Royals". There will also be stalls, games, refreshments, competitions for the best float, King & Queen, Best Scarecrow, BBQ Bonfire and Fireworks.
Phone: 01926 612568
Leamington Jubilee Celebrations
9 March - 7 July
The Royal Pump Rooms
To include an exhibition of Royal memorabilia, talk by local historian, children's workshop and dance.
Phone: 01926 742 700
Leamington Spa Golden Jubilee Celebrations
3 June 5.00pm - 10.30pm
The Royal Pump Room Gardens
A family fun evening with fairground rides, marching bands, a variety show including Irish dancers, Rock & Roll, New World pop band. Β£100 prize for the best dressed 'Red, White and Blue' and a massive fireworks display.
Pnone: 01926 429694
Oxhill Jubilee Village event
2 June
Throughout the village
2pm - An Oak tree will be planted near Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee Oak in Church Yard.
2.15pm - Opening Fifty Years of Oxhill Faces Exhibition
2.30pm - Fancy Dress Cricket - Peacock Inn v Rectors XI
Phone: 01295 680564
Queen & Country
29 - 30 June
Kenilworth Castle
Spend the day with Royal courtiers, soldiers and subjects and pay homage to the great Queens of England through the ages.
Phone: 0870 333 1181
Radford Semele Weekend of Jubilee events
1 - 4 June
The Parish of Radford Semele is celebrating the Golden Jubilee with a four day festival to include a craft and hobbies exhibition, a dog show, disco, steel band and carnival.
Phone: 01926 425407
Royal Progress - The Court of Elizabeth I Past Pleasures
2 - 3 June
Kenilworth Castle
As part of the Royal Heritage season to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth I returns to the castle for a weekend of royal revelry, pomp and pageantry.
Phone: 0870 333 1181
Stratford Jubilee celebrations
1 - 4 June
The Sealed Knot
(The Recreation Ground)
Throughout the weekend, The Sealed Knot will present spectacular Battle re-enactments, displays and living history encampment with an artillery salute to commemorate 50 years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
Bob Wilson's Funfair
1 - 4 June
(The Recreation Ground adjacent the Bandstand)
A traditional funfair with traditional rides and sidestalls.
Bridge Street Entertainment
3 June
(Bridge Street will be closed to traffic from 1.00am Mon 3 till 6.00am Tue 4 June)
3.00pm to 5.00pm
Children's Entertainment with comedy magic, audience participation, Clowns,
stiltwalkers, unicyclists and balloon modellers.
7.30pm to 10.30pm
Music of the past 50 years with
The Mike James Sound & Singers
15 piece Big Band Rockabilly with Good Rockin' Tonight
Grand Finale Fireworks Display
10.45pm
View from Bancroft Gardens, Tramway Bridge or the Recreation Ground
Phone: 01789 551 772
The Jubilee Jousting Tournament
1 - 4 June
Warwick Castle
Knights battle in a colourful competition.
The Royal Show, Stoneleigh
3 July
Stoneleigh, Kenilworth
The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh will visit Royal Show, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
Phone: 01926 412328
Wootten Wawen Jubilee Party
3 June
12noon onwards
Events across the recreation ground, Dyers Lane and the village hall to include a Kings and Queens float procession, a fishing procession, tea party, Sylvester the Jester, bouncy castle. There will be dancing in the hall from 7pm and a beacon will be lit at 10pm.
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