News from our partners: Creating a colourful splash for the Jubilee

News from our partners

With final preparations underway in Ellesmere to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, locals are being encouraged to look the part by wearing a splash of red, white and blue.

Ellesmere Library is holding another craftmaking workshop two days before the festivities start so that people can create their own Union Jack rosettes and ties, using paper napkins.

This is the latest in a series of Jubilee activities organised by the team at the Our Space community centre in Trimpley over the past few weeks.

The workshop is on Tuesday 31 May 2022 at 10.30am to 2,30pm, led by library assistant Sally Poynton.

Ellesmere Library craftmaking activities. Photo by David Atkinson.

Sally said:-

“We’ve already held similar workshops, together with coffee mornings and quizzes, where people have been able to share memories of previous royal events. There’s a lot of excitement about the Jubilee, and we’re offering people a final chance to come along and really get involved by making something colourful to wear for the various festivities that are taking place nationally and locally.”

The library is showing old newsreels from the 1950s and offering borrowers a range of books covering The Queen’s 70-year reign. Quiz sheets are also available to people organising their own Jubilee parties.