A HUGE variety of events took place at street parties all over Malvern on Monday, including one featuring around 130 people from just one family.

Church Road played host to family members descended from the late Queenie Caswell, of Malvern, ranging in age from four-week-old Oscar Middleton to host Freda Morris, 81, and hailing from all over the country.

Margaret Wood, of Gloucester, said the Jubilee had seemed the perfect excuse for a family reunion - along with the the fact that her mother, Mrs Caswell, had been an ardent royalist.

"If you celebrate the Queen, you celebrate the family," she said. "We were brought up to keep as a family."

Another place seeing a lot of reunions was The Lees. Here, many former residents had been invited back to visit old friends.

George Roberts, now of Wells Road, donned a patriotic outfit including Union flag cape for the occasion.

Sack races, a morse code treasure hunt, tug-o-war and pin the flag on Buckingham Palace took place, alongside a free buffet.

"We've had about 150 people from the neighbouring roads and people over the years who have moved have returned," said organiser Peter Edwards.

Jubilee cars were the order of the day at Gilbert's End, where a 1955 Ford Popular and a 1959 Morris Traveller, highly polished for the occasion, were parked.

The road was closed off and long tables laid end to end, with lots of sandwiches and nibbles. Overhead flew a Union flag with the Queen's face emblazoned on it, flags, red, white and blue balloons and bunting.

"We were going to go on the girls' college playing field but it was too wet underfoot," explained organiser Paul Hern, who said that around 160 people had come to the event.

Revellers at Alicante Close kept an eye on Teletext to see when the weather looked like improving and were just getting under way at 5pm.

A firework display, live music and a barbecue were lined up, according to resident Marj Carter.

Not to be outdone, residents in Cedar Avenue were donning patriotic dress, eating, playing games in the street and listening to live keyboard music.

Organiser Caroline Standham said the event had grown out of a private party into a street celebration, with Jubilee badges being sold to fund it and raise money for Malvern and District Stroke Club.

"It has been good fun because it's a mixture of age groups," she said.