Join Littlehampton’s historic jubilee beacon lighting

The town will be part of a record-breaking beacon-lighting ceremony, which will see about 4,000 communities from the UK, the Isle of Man, Channel Islands and other countries in the Commonwealth, uniting to celebrate the Queen’s diamond jubilee.

Scouts, Guides and a marching band from Littlehampton will converge in a colourful, jubilee-themed lantern procession, along the town’s seafront.

The procession will begin at 9.30pm from Mewsbrook Park and will continue towards the town’s beacon, near Banjo Road, where residents are asked to gather to witness the historic occasion – which will be only the third time the beacon has been lit in more than a decade.

Littlehampton’s new town mayor, Emma Neno, will be joining in with a rousing chorus of the national anthem, alongside the Scouts and Guides, before lighting the beacon at exactly 10.15pm this evening, with the help of the young winners from the Mewsbrook Park fancy dress competition, earlier today.

The chairman of Littlehampton Town Council’s community resources committee, Alan Gammon said: “The Queen is only the second British monarch to celebrate 60 years on the throne and the opportunity to witness an occasion as important as this cannot be understated. This is a chance for you and the whole Littlehampton community to be part of history.”