There is a website that has loads of information about street parties, the history, ideas, help and ideas.
They have a section just about Jubilee Street Parties,
'Anyone planning a street party for the diamond jubilee might like to know that street parties have a long history in the UK, though mainly in England and Wales. The tradition of street parties as we now know them as popular residents' events in their own streets seem to have really taken off on a large scale in 1919. They were held in July as 'Peace Teas' as a genuine celebration of the signing of the Versailles peace treaty after the First World War. They were tea parties that were focussed on a special treat for children in those times of hardship and were quite formal sit down affairs.
These residents led street parties were a popular mass participation and were probably a development of more formal public street dinners that had historically been held, such as for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.'
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