AS the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations got underway today, the final preparations are being made for many street parties to be held across the borough over the extended bank holiday weekend.

Some will be small affairs, while others necessitate the closure of whole streets.

But you can be sure that each will be packed with fund and will spark memories of traditional British way of doing things that will last for years for the young people involved.

If you would like to share a memory of your event with our local community, please send us a picture via email or Facebook (or post your own details via our NubIt button and we will put a compilation of borough celebrations together.

Among the many street parties taking place are the following, which will see local roads closed:

Friday, 3 June

• ·        Dacre Cresent, Aveley - 10am to 9pm
• ·        Fairview Avenue, Stanford-le-Hope - 9am to 11.59pm
• ·        Gunning Road, Grays - 12pm to 7pm
• ·        High Road, Horndon on the Hill - 10am to 5pm
• ·        Lawns Crescent, Grays - 12pm to 10pm
• ·        Meadow Road, Stifford Clays - 10am to 10pm
• ·        Priory Road, Stanford-le-Hope - 10am to 7pm
• ·        Redlie Close, Stanford-le-Hope - 10am to 7pm

Saturday, 4 June

• ·        Alliston Way, Stanford-le-Hope - 11am to 4pm
• ·        Bull Close, Chafford Hundred - 11.30am to 11.59pm
• ·        Humber Avenue, South Ockendon - 1pm to 10pm
• ·        Northfields, Grays - 12pm to 10.59pm
• ·        Scott Road, Chadwell St Mary - 1pm to 8pm
• ·        Seabrooke Rise, Grays - 10am to 6pm
• ·        Woodmanhurst Road, Corringham - 11.30am to 3pm

Sunday, June 5

• ·        Allenby Crescent, Grays - 12pm to 9pm
• ·        Bromley, Grays - 2pm to 11pm
• ·        Coombe Rise, Stanford-le-Hope - 12pm to 6pm
• ·        Culford Road, Grays - 8am to 9pm
• ·        Diana Close, Chafford Hundred - 12pm to 7pm
• ·        Medbree Court, Orsett - 10am to 11.59am
• ·        Milton Road, Corringham - 9am to 10pm
• ·        Orsett Heath Crescent, Grays - 9am to 9pm
• ·        Queen Elizabeth Drive, Corringham - 10am to 11pm
• ·        Scratton Road, Stanford-le-Hope - 10am to 9pm
• ·        Tennyson Avenue, Grays - 10am to 9pm
• ·        Whitmore Avenue, Grays - 8am to 6pm