A BEACON in Uppermill was one of about 3,000 lit across the UK and the Commonwealth to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Uppermill Conservative Club was packed to bursting for the special event on Thursday, June 2.
Greenfield Band opened the proceedings by playing the National Anthem and ‘Diu Regnare’, a piece composed especially for the Platinum Jubilee.
Then Saddleworth Parish Council Chair, Cllr Pam Byrne, read the Proclamation for the Platinum Jubilee.
Bugler John Whittle sounded the fanfare ‘Majesty’ for the lighting of the beacon performed by Cllrs Luke Lancaster and Max Woodvine.
Monsignor Bernard Bickers led prayers and administered a blessing on those present and the beacon before the ceremony closed with the playing of patriotic anthems.
Oldham Borough and Saddleworth Parish councillors Max Woodvine and Luke Lancaster organised the ceremony and provided funding along with Cllr Byrne, Cllr Graham Sheldon and former councillor Jamie Curley.
They said: “We would like to thank the people of Saddleworth for their attendance and making it such a special evening and event.
“Our sense of community is always strong, but it has been further strengthened as we have come together to thank Her Majesty for seventy years’ service to the country and Commonwealth.
“We certainly lit up Saddleworth in honour of Her. God save The Queen!”
The principal beacon lighting took place in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace, with the Queen herself lighting up the Canopy ’Tree of Trees’ sculpture and projections on the front of the Royal residence.
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